svn commit: r316978 - in head: contrib/zstd etc/mtree lib lib/libzstd share/mk usr.bin usr.bin/zstd

[Ian Lepore]

On Sun, 2017-04-16 at 09:35 +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 04:37:02PM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > 
> > And we need this in base for what great purpose???
> > 
> zstandard is the successor to lz4, there are attempts to integrate
> zstandard in
> ZFS, Allan Jude is working on that, I am working on integrating in
> libstand to
> allow to boot a kernel compressed with zstandard or a mfsroot with
> zstandard,
> which would benefit lots of pxe users.
> 
> I have also added it to newsyslog(8) so users can benefit zstandard
> compression
> for the log files, which will consume less CPUs for greater
> compression that
> bzip2. On low ended boxes with low storage this is actually very
> useful as well.
> 
> I haven't checked yet the performances on my armv6 boxes, but on the
> low ended
> recent atom laptops I can tell this is already very useful.
> 
> Bapt

Does it also need to be added to the toolkit in /rescue?  The other
major compression tools in base are there.

-- Ian