On 25.01.2011 23:45, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 25.01.2011 23:11, schrieb C Anthony Risinger: >> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Sven-Hendrik Haase <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> I wondered whether we are going to use xz for squashfs compression in >>> the upcoming kernel 2.6.38? >> apologies... i swear there was a thread recently with answers to these... >> >> ) how much MB or % (approx?) does this free up? > Not as much as we'd like I think. > >> ) will this increase the minimum RAM needed for inflation? > I don't think so, no. > >> ) what other goodies/considerations come with this change? > Hm, none? > >From my tests it makes booting faster (albeit only a minor change) probably because less MBs of data need to be read from the rather slow CD/DVD medium. So this sounds like there's only a few minor positive changes without any drawbacks?
I'd say go for it then. :)
