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Date:      Thu, 4 Mar 2010 11:21:59 +0100
From:      Ulf Lilleengen <lulf@pvv.ntnu.no>
To:        Alexandr Rybalko <ray@dlink.ua>
Cc:        geom@freebsd.org, embedded@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GEOM_ULZMA
Message-ID:  <20100304102158.GA8092@nobby.geeknest.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100219163644.da89e882.ray@dlink.ua>
References:  <20100219163644.da89e882.ray@dlink.ua>

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On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 04:36:44PM +0200, Alexandr Rybalko wrote:
> Hi,
> I wrote a module GEOM_ULZMA (such as GEOM_UZIP, but compression with lzma), in connection with this is an issue best left lzma
> code in the file "geom_ulzma.c" or store lzma library separately. If separately, then where better?
> 
> Maybe in future make lzma and gzip library kernel interface for embedded?
> Then in one instance of code, userland can use compression via kernel.
> 

What are the cons against combining uzip/ulzma into a geom_z/geom_compress
module that can support different compression schemes? I think this makes
more sense than having different geom modules for each compression scheme.

-- 
Ulf Lilleengen



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