From owner-svn-src-all@freebsd.org Sat Apr 22 22:05:43 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DFECD4B20F for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2017 22:05:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ian@freebsd.org) Received: from outbound1a.eu.mailhop.org (outbound1a.eu.mailhop.org [52.58.109.202]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E73F519A for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2017 22:05:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ian@freebsd.org) X-MHO-User: cd73eff9-27a7-11e7-b96e-2378c10e3beb X-Report-Abuse-To: https://support.duocircle.com/support/solutions/articles/5000540958-duocircle-standard-smtp-abuse-information X-Originating-IP: 73.78.92.27 X-Mail-Handler: DuoCircle Outbound SMTP Received: from ilsoft.org (unknown [73.78.92.27]) by outbound1.eu.mailhop.org (Halon) with ESMTPSA id cd73eff9-27a7-11e7-b96e-2378c10e3beb; Sat, 22 Apr 2017 22:05:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rev (rev [172.22.42.240]) by ilsoft.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id v3MM5S64006736; Sat, 22 Apr 2017 16:05:28 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ian@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <1492898728.56859.13.camel@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r316978 - in head: contrib/zstd etc/mtree lib lib/libzstd share/mk usr.bin usr.bin/zstd From: Ian Lepore To: Baptiste Daroussin , rgrimes@freebsd.org Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 16:05:28 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20170416073551.557czdcksdmmuz24@ivaldir.net> References: <201704152005.v3FK5M2j002459@repo.freebsd.org> <201704152337.v3FNb2m1014053@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> <20170416073551.557czdcksdmmuz24@ivaldir.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.18.5.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 22:05:43 -0000 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