> > bzip2 etc. will be a net space loss. I have _not_ decided whether to bite
> > this bullet- is it worth fifty or a hundred K of space, plus simplifying
> > the structure, at the cost that to replace the kernel you will have to
> > apply a bzip2-ramdisk-decompression patch?
for this I say, sure why not....
> the kernel-gang be interested in such a patch? After all, if you are
> interested in a compressed filesystem, why not go for the gold and use bzip2
> from the start.
because bzip2 is SLOW on older or low mem machines... There is a gzip
compressed readonly fs, and it's reasonable fast (cloop, written by Paul
Russell), and the current 2.4 has a cramfs readonly filesystem, not sure
what it uses....
why reinvent the wheel yet again?
Seth
