From: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
To: Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>,
Daniel Egger <degger@fhm.edu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rob@landley.net
Subject: Re: Where's the bzip2 compressed linux-kernel patch?
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 23:04:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031019210453.GE16761@alpha.home.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200310191245.55961.mbuesch@freenet.de>
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 12:45:46PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> What about making it configurable? If someone want's bzip2
> and if he want's to wait longer to boot, (s)he may
> compile bzip2 support.
> If someone dislikes it, (s)he may use gzip.
I don't know if people have already tested LZO and NRV (used in UPX). Perhaps
LZO might already be a little better than gzip, while faster and with less
code. NRV is surely better, but is not open source IIRC. Perhaps Markus would
agree to release a free NRV decompressor if asked kindly ?
Regards,
Willy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-19 21:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-18 5:18 Rob Landley
2003-10-18 5:30 ` Nick Piggin
2003-10-18 11:39 ` Daniel Egger
2003-10-19 0:51 ` Nick Piggin
2003-10-19 10:45 ` Michael Buesch
2003-10-19 21:04 ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2003-10-19 21:27 ` Michael Buesch
2003-10-20 0:00 ` Rob Landley
2003-10-20 4:28 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-10-20 4:52 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-10-20 5:47 ` Rob Landley
2003-10-20 11:55 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-10-19 22:15 ` Rob Landley
2003-10-18 6:05 ` Erik Andersen
2003-10-18 16:43 ` Jörn Engel
2003-10-18 20:38 ` Rob Landley
2003-10-20 8:31 ` Jörn Engel
2003-10-20 9:41 ` Rob Landley
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