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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 19:21:50 +0200 (CEST) Grzegorz Kulewski wrote:

| On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Phillip Lougher wrote:
| 
| >> Where should I start from? Really a newbie to this,
| >> appreciate any comments and suggestions!!
| >
| > There has been discussion on this list before about adding
| > bzip2 support to the kernel.  Do a search on the list for this.
| 
| Long, long ago there was something called e2compr. They had bzip2 in the 
| kernel. I remember 40 seconds mc start time on disk compressed with bzip2 
| on i486-DX 40 MHz... :-)

still at
  http://e2compr.sourceforge.net/

--
~Randy