Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Aug 2004 17:45:40 +0100 | From | Phillip Lougher <> | Subject | Re: Compression algorithm in cloop |
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> 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?
Changing the algorithm from gzip is going to be probably unpopular. Cloop uses the gzip deflate library inside the kernel shared by a large number of other programs. To change the algorithm you'll have to add more (private) decompression code to the kernel. This is a retrograde step because the shared library was only introduced in 2.4.17 to avoid lots of private copies of gzip.
> 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.
Regards
Phillip
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