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Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 19:21:50 +0200 (CEST)
From: Grzegorz Kulewski <kangur@polcom.net>
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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... :-)


Grzegorz Kulewski