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Date:      Wed, 3 Mar 2010 16:01:59 +0800
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Alex RAY <ray@ddteam.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: GEOM_ULZMA
Message-ID:  <d763ac661003030001k1055eae8rb106dcc9e73047dc@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <d763ac661002201020g381ab6c0uca6d6fa3f660ed1b@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20100219163644.da89e882.ray__27111.9062825621$1266591431$gmane$org@dlink.ua> <hlmb66$n0t$1@ger.gmane.org> <20100219222604.44e50248.ray@ddteam.net> <d763ac661002200636u6a0d9546id96fbe2302c7122b@mail.gmail.com> <20100220201510.720c62fd.ray@ddteam.net> <d763ac661002201020g381ab6c0uca6d6fa3f660ed1b@mail.gmail.com>

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On 21 February 2010 02:20, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Oh I know that! I'm just saying that I may try lzma'ing the kernel and
> rootfs's to see what kind of savings I get over gzip. :)

The answer is "whoa". 24 megabyte compressed kernel + MDROOT drops to
6.5 megabytes with gzip -9 and a few bytes shy of 5 megabytes with a
default lzma compress.

.. wow. :)

This is +1 for GEOM_ULZMA too if it's as effective for the mfs itself.
I'll toy with that later.


Adrian



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