Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 16:05:28 -0600 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, rgrimes@freebsd.org Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r316978 - in head: contrib/zstd etc/mtree lib lib/libzstd share/mk usr.bin usr.bin/zstd Message-ID: <1492898728.56859.13.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20170416073551.557czdcksdmmuz24@ivaldir.net> References: <201704152005.v3FK5M2j002459@repo.freebsd.org> <201704152337.v3FNb2m1014053@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> <20170416073551.557czdcksdmmuz24@ivaldir.net>
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On Sun, 2017-04-16 at 09:35 +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 04:37:02PM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > And we need this in base for what great purpose??? > > > zstandard is the successor to lz4, there are attempts to integrate > zstandard in > ZFS, Allan Jude is working on that, I am working on integrating in > libstand to > allow to boot a kernel compressed with zstandard or a mfsroot with > zstandard, > which would benefit lots of pxe users. > > I have also added it to newsyslog(8) so users can benefit zstandard > compression > for the log files, which will consume less CPUs for greater > compression that > bzip2. On low ended boxes with low storage this is actually very > useful as well. > > I haven't checked yet the performances on my armv6 boxes, but on the > low ended > recent atom laptops I can tell this is already very useful. > > Bapt Does it also need to be added to the toolkit in /rescue? The other major compression tools in base are there. -- Ian
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