On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Theo de Raadt <dera...@cvs.openbsd.org> wrote: [...] > If anyone thinks using this for the install or boot media is going to > help, don't say a word until you can prove it on all platforms.
Has anyone looked at zopfli[1] for the install media? It's a (apache 2 licensed) slightly better but much slower gzip compressor that still produces gzip-compatible output. For an amd64 ramdiskA it makes a bsd.gz that's 48k smaller than gzip (in ~16 seconds) and should compatible with the bootloader. I tried it once in a vm and it booted ok. $ time gzip -9cn bsd.strip >bsd.gz real 0m0.648s user 0m0.610s sys 0m0.000s $ time zopfli -c bsd.strip >bsd.zopfli.gz real 0m17.409s user 0m16.810s sys 0m0.580s $ ls -l bsd.gz bsd.zopfli.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 dtucker wsrc 1349508 Jun 6 15:40 bsd.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 dtucker wsrc 1310302 Jun 6 15:42 bsd.zopfli.gz [1] https://code.google.com/p/zopfli/ -- Darren Tucker (dtucker at zip.com.au) GPG key 8FF4FA69 / D9A3 86E9 7EEE AF4B B2D4 37C9 C982 80C7 8FF4 FA69 Good judgement comes with experience. Unfortunately, the experience usually comes from bad judgement.
