GEOM_ULZMA

[Alex RAY]

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>