> And Seth sez:
>
> >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....
>
> The cramfs works great on chip-based devices. A guy made a "distro" that
> fits the LEM distro + Netscape (!) on a 16 meg device, so the compression
> can't be very bad, although I doubt it's as good as bzip2. It is read only,
> however, which makes it somewhat annoying to experiment with while running.
Yeah, I know the guy, cause I helped with the Jailbait distro that runs on
the I-opener. We worked really hard on that. :) A complete graphical
linux system in just 16 megs of flash. the compression is still about 4
to 1 at best....
Seth
