Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 May 2007 10:49:13 +0200 | From | Tomasz Chmielewski <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel |
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David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 23:21 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >> Well that's attractive-looking code. > > It's compression code. I've never seen compression code look nice :) > >> Why is this needed? What code plans to use it? > > I'm itching to use it in JFFS2. Richard claims a 10% boot time speedup > and 40% improvement on file read speed, with only a slight drop in the > file compression ratio (when compared to zlib).
Would be interesting to have it as a shared base for planned-for-May-2020 "compressed tmpfs" (and, perhaps a filesystem with compression, which seems even harder to engineer properly).
-- Tomasz Chmielewski
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