GEOM_ULZMA

Alexandr Rybalko ray at dlink.ua
Thu Mar 4 14:38:40 UTC 2010


On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 15:28:19 +0100
Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg at britannica.bec.de> wrote:

>> On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 12:17:05PM +0200, Alexandr Rybalko wrote:
>> > LZMA compression optimized for fast decompression.
>> 
>> It is still measurable slower than gzip and it is certainly not free.
>> Most hard disks have linear read times >> 10 MB/s but the decompression
>> can easily need half a second even on a modern CPU.

No one says that it fast, but if you have only 4M of flash for CFE+kernel+rootfs+nvram, you must use something what make space
usage smaller.

>> 
>> Joerg
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