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Date:      Sun, 23 Apr 2017 01:27:07 +0200
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>
To:        Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        rgrimes@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r316978 - in head: contrib/zstd etc/mtree lib lib/libzstd share/mk usr.bin usr.bin/zstd
Message-ID:  <20170422232707.uds2qkumtxm4ex54@ivaldir.net>
In-Reply-To: <1492898728.56859.13.camel@freebsd.org>
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On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 04:05:28PM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote:
> 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:
> > >=20
> > > And we need this in base for what great purpose???
> > >=20
> > 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.
> >=20
> > 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.
> >=20
> > 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.
> >=20
> > Bapt
>=20
> Does it also need to be added to the toolkit in /rescue? =A0The other
> major compression tools in base are there.

I'm not sure it is worth it, is it?

Bapt

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