Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753642AbYGAGhp (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jul 2008 02:37:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751797AbYGAGhe (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jul 2008 02:37:34 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:53442 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751767AbYGAGhe (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jul 2008 02:37:34 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 08:37:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Tomas M cc: Pavel Machek , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: LZMA compression algorithm in Kernel - any chance to allow it? In-Reply-To: <4864F524.2070603@slax.org> Message-ID: References: <48634BA7.6030902@slax.org> <20080626201754.GE9878@ucw.cz> <4864F524.2070603@slax.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LNX 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 898 Lines: 22 On Friday 2008-06-27 16:11, 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. I rather meant "who would still use cramfs", given that squashfs actually crams more files into the same space. -- 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/