boot failed with gzip'ed modules

[Bruce M. Simpson]

David Naylor wrote:
> Is there any plan to add bzip2 to loader (i.e. bzip2 modules and kernel) or to 
> geom_uzip?  If not is there a good reason why it is avoided or just a case of 
> lacking developer interest (or time)?  
>   
bzip2 uses a block-sorting compression algorithm, which requires 
significantly larger amounts of memory to operate than gzip, which uses 
a dictionary-based compression algorithm.

As such, gzip is more appropriate for use in boot-time and/or embedded 
environments, which often have limited heap space.