From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268127AbUHKRTb (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:19:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268128AbUHKRTb (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:19:31 -0400 Received: from mailer.nec-labs.com ([138.15.108.3]:62779 "EHLO mailer.nec-labs.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268127AbUHKRT0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 13:19:26 -0400 Message-ID: <411A5520.9000805@nec-labs.com> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 10:19:28 -0700 From: Lei Yang User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040114 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Luca Barbato CC: linux-kernel Subject: Re: Compression algorithm in cloop References: <411A348D.9070808@nec-labs.com> <411A50CD.3070908@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <411A50CD.3070908@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Aug 2004 17:19:25.0736 (UTC) FILETIME=[59F05A80:01C47FC7] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Great! That certainly should help! The problem is, how can I put the algorithm in the kernel? Is there a forum or mailing list for this kind of work? Thanks! Lei Luca Barbato wrote: > Lei Yang wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I am trying to do some experiment on compression ratios with cloop. I >> know that currently cloop uses zlib. How can I change it to other >> algorithms? Where should I start from? Really a newbie to this, >> appreciate any comments!! >> >> TIA. >> Lei >> > I made a variation from cloop called gcloop it could use any algorithm > you can put in the kernel (I use an hack to use ucl right now) > > You can find it at dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero/gcloop > > I hope it helps. > > lu >