Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268274AbUI2I5C (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2004 04:57:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268275AbUI2I5C (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2004 04:57:02 -0400 Received: from [213.146.154.40] ([213.146.154.40]:2717 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268274AbUI2I47 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2004 04:56:59 -0400 Subject: Re: Compressed filesystems: Better compression? From: David Woodhouse To: John Richard Moser Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <415A302E.5090402@comcast.net> References: <415A302E.5090402@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1096448216.30942.147.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2.dwmw2.1) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 09:56:57 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 787 Lines: 21 On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 23:46 -0400, John Richard Moser wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I wonder what compression Squashfs, cramfs, and zisofs use. I think > cramfs uses zlib compression; I don't know of any other compression in > the kernel tree, so I assume zisofs uses the same, as does squashfs. Am > I mistaken? JFFS2 has a variety of compression options too. In fact, it might be nice to make a generic compression framework (or just use the crypto one) instead of having that in JFFS2 itself. -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/