Re: LZMA compression algorithm in Kernel - any chance to allow it?

[Josh Boyer]

On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 16:11 +0200, Tomas M wrote:
> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > On Thursday 2008-06-26 22:17, Pavel Machek wrote:
> >>> If I (or anybody else) submit LZMA code for inclusion in kernel, would you ACCEPT IT ?? (assuming the code looks nice to you)
> >> You need some good reason why lzma should be in kernel... like 'cramfs
> >> can use it'...?
> > 
> > squashfs if at all.
> > 
> 
> Well anything can use lzma or any other compressions, not only squashfs.
> Squashfs is a great example, where you get 30% smaller filesystems compared to gzip.

JFFS2 has an framework for having multiple compression algorithms.
Adding LZMA to that wouldn't be difficult either.

josh

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