I wondered whether we are going to use xz for squashfs compression in the upcoming kernel 2.6.38?
-- Sven-Hendrik
good question.
2011/1/25 Sven-Hendrik Haase sh@lutzhaase.com
I wondered whether we are going to use xz for squashfs compression in the upcoming kernel 2.6.38?
-- Sven-Hendrik
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase sh@lutzhaase.com wrote:
I wondered whether we are going to use xz for squashfs compression in the upcoming kernel 2.6.38?
apologies... i swear there was a thread recently with answers to these...
) how much MB or % (approx?) does this free up? ) will this increase the minimum RAM needed for inflation? ) what other goodies/considerations come with this change?
C Anthony
Am 25.01.2011 23:11, schrieb C Anthony Risinger:
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase sh@lutzhaase.com wrote:
I wondered whether we are going to use xz for squashfs compression in the upcoming kernel 2.6.38?
apologies... i swear there was a thread recently with answers to these...
) how much MB or % (approx?) does this free up?
Not as much as we'd like I think.
) will this increase the minimum RAM needed for inflation?
I don't think so, no.
) what other goodies/considerations come with this change?
Hm, none?
On 25.01.2011 23:45, Thomas Bächler wrote:
Am 25.01.2011 23:11, schrieb C Anthony Risinger:
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase sh@lutzhaase.com wrote:
I wondered whether we are going to use xz for squashfs compression in the upcoming kernel 2.6.38?
apologies... i swear there was a thread recently with answers to these...
) how much MB or % (approx?) does this free up?
Not as much as we'd like I think.
) will this increase the minimum RAM needed for inflation?
I don't think so, no.
) what other goodies/considerations come with this change?
Hm, none?
From my tests it makes booting faster (albeit only a minor change)
probably because less MBs of data need to be read from the rather slow CD/DVD medium. So this sounds like there's only a few minor positive changes without any drawbacks?
I'd say go for it then. :)
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