Re: Compression algorithm in cloop

From: Randy.Dunlap
Date: Wed Aug 11 2004 - 12:43:28 EST


On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 19:21:50 +0200 (CEST) Grzegorz Kulewski wrote:

| On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Phillip Lougher wrote:
|
| >> Where should I start from? Really a newbie to this,
| >> appreciate any comments and suggestions!!
| >
| > There has been discussion on this list before about adding
| > bzip2 support to the kernel. Do a search on the list for this.
|
| Long, long ago there was something called e2compr. They had bzip2 in the
| kernel. I remember 40 seconds mc start time on disk compressed with bzip2
| on i486-DX 40 MHz... :-)

still at
http://e2compr.sourceforge.net/

--
~Randy
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