On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase 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:

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On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:

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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.

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) will this increase the minimum RAM needed for inflation? I don't think so, no.

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) what other goodies/considerations come with this change? Hm, none?

From my tests it makes booting faster (albeit only a minor change)

On 25.01.2011 23:45, Thomas Bächler wrote: 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. :)