From owner-freebsd-small Fri Jun 30 13:31:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mailrouter1.strath.ac.uk (orkney.cc.strath.ac.uk [130.159.248.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CA0137BC16 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 13:31:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roger@cs.strath.ac.uk) Received: from [62.252.144.38] (helo=cs.strath.ac.uk) by mailrouter1.strath.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #2) id 1387Qf-0003qT-00; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 21:30:26 +0100 Message-ID: <395D03A1.6F2E5090@cs.strath.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 21:31:29 +0100 From: Roger Hardiman Organization: Strathclyde University X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White Cc: small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bzip2 vrs gzip saves me 28k on my kernel size References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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