Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964865AbWIVS1f (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:27:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964867AbWIVS1f (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:27:35 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:61865 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964865AbWIVS1d (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:27:33 -0400 Message-ID: <45142AF1.1090806@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:26:57 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060808) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Tokarev CC: Johannes Stezenbach , Jan Engelhardt , Lennart Sorensen , Dax Kelson , Linux kernel , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs? References: <1158870777.24172.23.camel@mentorng.gurulabs.com> <20060921204250.GN13641@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <45130792.9040104@zytor.com> <20060922140007.GK13639@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <4514103D.8010303@zytor.com> <20060922174137.GA29929@linuxtv.org> <451426C9.9040002@zytor.com> <4514292C.5000309@tls.msk.ru> In-Reply-To: <4514292C.5000309@tls.msk.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 696 Lines: 22 Michael Tokarev wrote: > > Well, I don't see any shell code here, in /usr/bin/lzma as in istalled from > debian version 4.43-2. > > But note that this lzma utility does not have any 'magic number' and does > no crc checks. Ah, right, that's a total killer. > On the site it's said lzma(sdk) is under rewrite to support > new format with magic number and crc checks... That is an absolute must, IMO. I would use the gzip format as a base. -hpa - 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/