From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Dec 18 13:58:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A5DEA37B41D for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 13:58:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 31540 invoked by uid 0); 18 Dec 2001 21:58:10 -0000 Received: from p3ee21672.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO mail.gsinet.sittig.org) (62.226.22.114) by mail.gmx.net (mp016-rz3) with SMTP; 18 Dec 2001 21:58:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 84779 invoked from network); 18 Dec 2001 21:54:42 -0000 Received: from shell.gsinet.sittig.org (192.168.11.153) by mail.gsinet.sittig.org with SMTP; 18 Dec 2001 21:54:42 -0000 Received: (from sittig@localhost) by shell.gsinet.sittig.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id fBILsd284775 for stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 22:54:39 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sittig) Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 22:54:38 +0100 From: Gerhard Sittig To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Waaaarg, we just blew out the kernel again.. Message-ID: <20011218225438.C1494@shell.gsinet.sittig.org> Mail-Followup-To: stable@freebsd.org References: <200112181133.MAA11130@marabu.marabu.ch> <200112181940.fBIJeaO01489@mass.dis.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200112181940.fBIJeaO01489@mass.dis.org>; from msmith@freebsd.org on Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 11:40:36AM -0800 Organization: System Defenestrators Inc. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 11:40 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > Realistically, we should just standardise on a single (de)compression > engine for the loader and use it; whether it's gzip or bzip doesn't > matter all that much, except that gzip is part of the system via libz, > and bzip isn't. $ cvs log lib/libbz2/Makefile | tail -9 ---------------------------- revision 1.1 date: 2001/06/21 19:16:17; author: obrien; state: Exp; Add libbz2 to provide Bzip2 capabilities to the system. ---------------------------- revision 1.2.2.1 date: 2001/08/01 00:14:04; author: obrien; state: Exp; lines: +0 -0 MFC: libbz2 ============================================================================= bzip2 has been around for a while and has been shipped since 4.4-RELEASE. :) When I see the constant "who put another three KB into the kernel and thus broke release?" against the "9KB plus for the loader versus 40KB gain for the kernel" switching to bzip2 should give some room to breath(sp?). PS: Should I miss the point (something like the difference between bzip and bzip2?) feel free to drop this ignorant message into the bit bucket. virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message