Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:20:28 +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: <d763ac661002201020g381ab6c0uca6d6fa3f660ed1b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100220201510.720c62fd.ray@ddteam.net> 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>
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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. :) Adrian On 21 February 2010 02:15, Alex RAY <ray@ddteam.net> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:36:02 +0800 > Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> On 20 February 2010 04:26, Alex RAY <ray@ddteam.net> wrote: >> >> > :) No, I don`t think about "magically faster", now I near to release FreeBSD firmware for D-Link DIR-320 router which have only 4MB of flash memory. Maybe in next time I try to make it for some router with only 2MB of flash. In that way, >> > I need not copy of any code. >> > In ideal embedded systems, if we have code, we must use it everywhere we need it. >> >> Interesting! The Redboot loader that I'm toying with on the ubiquiti >> hardware supports LZMA as well as GZIP for compressed kernel images; I >> may have to experiment with that and this module. > > No, this module not fore compress/decompress kernel. This module used like geom_uzip (man geom_uzip, man mkuzip), for compressing blocks of filesystem to reducing size of FS image. > > To use with bootloader You may use lzma utility. > > >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> Adrian > > > -- > Alex RAY <ray@ddteam.net> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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