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Date:      Tue, 18 Dec 2001 23:16:52 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org>
Cc:        Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net>, "stable@freebsd.org" <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Waaaarg, we just blew out the kernel again..
Message-ID:  <20011218231652.A896@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.WNT.4.43.0112191104290.1276-100000@den2>; from juha@saarinen.org on Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 11:05:23AM %2B1300
References:  <20011218225438.C1494@shell.gsinet.sittig.org> <Pine.WNT.4.43.0112191104290.1276-100000@den2>

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On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 11:05:23AM +1300, Juha Saarinen wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Gerhard Sittig wrote:
> 
> >  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?).
> 
> Is there much difference in speed between the compression methods? That
> is, would bzip2 be an issue on older, low-spec machines?

bzip2 is slow. So, wait a little longer while booting the install floppy..
;-) Should not hurt otherwise.

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