Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757851AbYF0OLj (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:11:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751611AbYF0OLc (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:11:32 -0400 Received: from ns1.bluetone.cz ([212.158.128.13]:32860 "EHLO ns1.bluetone.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753480AbYF0OLb (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:11:31 -0400 Message-ID: <4864F524.2070603@slax.org> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:11:48 +0200 From: Tomas M User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt CC: Pavel Machek , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: LZMA compression algorithm in Kernel - any chance to allow it? References: <48634BA7.6030902@slax.org> <20080626201754.GE9878@ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 738 Lines: 18 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Thursday 2008-06-26 22:17, Pavel Machek wrote: >>> If I (or anybody else) submit LZMA code for inclusion in kernel, would you ACCEPT IT ?? (assuming the code looks nice to you) >> You need some good reason why lzma should be in kernel... like 'cramfs >> can use it'...? > > squashfs if at all. > Well anything can use lzma or any other compressions, not only squashfs. Squashfs is a great example, where you get 30% smaller filesystems compared to gzip. Tomas M -- 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/