GEOM_ULZMA

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Thu Mar 4 15:03:59 UTC 2010


On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 04:38:31PM +0200, Alexandr Rybalko wrote:
> 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.

Different domain :)

Joerg


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