Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:09:58 +0100 From: "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org> To: David Naylor <naylor.b.david@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot failed with gzip'ed modules Message-ID: <481523E6.5010909@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200804261840.52978.naylor.b.david@gmail.com> References: <200804252320.39121.naylor.b.david@gmail.com> <200804260822.47763.jhb@freebsd.org> <200804261840.52978.naylor.b.david@gmail.com>
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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.
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