On Sun, 2017-04-16 at 09:35 +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 04:37:02PM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > And we need this in base for what great purpose??? > > > zstandard is the successor to lz4, there are attempts to integrate > zstandard in > ZFS, Allan Jude is working on that, I am working on integrating in > libstand to > allow to boot a kernel compressed with zstandard or a mfsroot with > zstandard, > which would benefit lots of pxe users. > > I have also added it to newsyslog(8) so users can benefit zstandard > compression > for the log files, which will consume less CPUs for greater > compression that > bzip2. On low ended boxes with low storage this is actually very > useful as well. > > I haven't checked yet the performances on my armv6 boxes, but on the > low ended > recent atom laptops I can tell this is already very useful. > > Bapt
Does it also need to be added to the toolkit in /rescue? The other major compression tools in base are there. -- Ian _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
