Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 21:31:29 +0100 From: Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bzip2 vrs gzip saves me 28k on my kernel size Message-ID: <395D03A1.6F2E5090@cs.strath.ac.uk> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006300852550.21808-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Doug > > bzip2 gets the default kernel 27.5K SMALLER! > > Of course, I have not forgotten the space need for bzip2's > > decompressor. > you have to put bzip2 into loader then, and you will probably void your > space savings right there. yes, but we can take out the gzip compressor which is there now and use bzip2 for all the compressed files. > It would be more worthwhile to just get rid of loader altogether. I agree, but we still need to compress the kernel. Unfortunatly I've no time spare for experimenting with bzip2 further. Anyway, it is worth spening more effort reclaiming this potential 150k from the loader. Roger To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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