Re: Compressed filesystems: Better compression?

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Wed Sep 29 2004 - 03:58:19 EST


On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 23:46 -0400, John Richard Moser wrote:
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> I wonder what compression Squashfs, cramfs, and zisofs use. I think
> cramfs uses zlib compression; I don't know of any other compression in
> the kernel tree, so I assume zisofs uses the same, as does squashfs. Am
> I mistaken?

JFFS2 has a variety of compression options too. In fact, it might be
nice to make a generic compression framework (or just use the crypto
one) instead of having that in JFFS2 itself.

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dwmw2

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