GEOM_ULZMA

[Adrian Chadd]

Oh I know that! I'm just saying that I may try lzma'ing the kernel and
rootfs's to see what kind of savings I get over gzip. :)



Adrian

On 21 February 2010 02:15, Alex RAY <ray at ddteam.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:36:02 +0800
> Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> On 20 February 2010 04:26, Alex RAY <ray at ddteam.net> wrote:
>>
>> > :) No, I don`t think about "magically faster", now I near to release FreeBSD firmware for D-Link DIR-320 router which have only 4MB of flash memory. Maybe in next time I try to make it for some router with only 2MB of flash. In that way,
>> > I need not copy of any code.
>> > In ideal embedded systems, if we have code, we must use it everywhere we need it.
>>
>> Interesting! The Redboot loader that I'm toying with on the ubiquiti
>> hardware supports LZMA as well as GZIP for compressed kernel images; I
>> may have to experiment with that and this module.
>
> No, this module not fore compress/decompress kernel. This module used like geom_uzip (man geom_uzip, man mkuzip), for compressing blocks of filesystem to reducing size of FS image.
>
> To use with bootloader You may use lzma utility.
>
>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>> Adrian
>
>
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> Alex RAY <ray at ddteam.net>
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