Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757970AbYF0OPx (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:15:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754416AbYF0OPp (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:15:45 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.229]:25627 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751611AbYF0OPp (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:15:45 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date :message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=cBqmbYh/wWRT5tomWS5grpeqUeEEBno/K+iNtYhE+qDQMEjW0GU3V2QdQze5qEkyaG 3wTWzKjUVoDS52g1Kr2dWIAfEFxX1GuphGqRv2gNtUuYWqkuhBXell1+qhl9CepcygSq S29Iq9cr4ROWpLhSP1HDFEA9akl8WLDaZHugY= Subject: Re: LZMA compression algorithm in Kernel - any chance to allow it? From: Josh Boyer To: Tomas M Cc: Jan Engelhardt , Pavel Machek , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <4864F524.2070603@slax.org> References: <48634BA7.6030902@slax.org> <20080626201754.GE9878@ucw.cz> <4864F524.2070603@slax.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:15:39 -0400 Message-Id: <1214576139.7698.13.camel@weaponx> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.2 (2.22.2-2.fc9) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 926 Lines: 23 On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 16:11 +0200, Tomas M wrote: > 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. JFFS2 has an framework for having multiple compression algorithms. Adding LZMA to that wouldn't be difficult either. josh -- 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/