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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel
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On Fri, 11 May 2007 22:48:15 +0200
devzero@web.de wrote:

> >Why is this needed? What code plans to use it?
>
> it`s pretty useful because it`s and a damn fast and damn cpu friendly
> compression alorithm.
>
> afaik, there is already a least one linux kernel-feature (under
> development) which is using lzo compression: see compressed caching
> project at http://linux-mm.org/CompressedCaching &
> http://linuxcompressed.sourceforge.net/

Reiser4.1 (still in development) uses LZO compression too and it brings
a significant boost on dual core machines.

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Jindrich Makovicka

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