GEOM_ULZMA

[Adrian Chadd]

On 21 February 2010 02:20, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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. :)

The answer is "whoa". 24 megabyte compressed kernel + MDROOT drops to
6.5 megabytes with gzip -9 and a few bytes shy of 5 megabytes with a
default lzma compress.

.. wow. :)

This is +1 for GEOM_ULZMA too if it's as effective for the mfs itself.
I'll toy with that later.


Adrian