GEOM_ULZMA

[Alexandr Rybalko]

On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 16:01:59 +0800
Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:

>> 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

kernel from 3M to 850K
rootfs.iso from 11M to 2.7

near to 25% of uncompressed


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Alexandr Rybalko <ray at dlink.ua> 
aka Alex RAY <ray at ddteam.net>