Re: PATCH: bzip2 support for initrd

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Wed, 27 Oct 1999 11:13:11 -0400

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Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 10:34:49AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > This 2.2.13 patch[1] adds bzlib (bzip2) decompression support to the
> > kernel, in linux/lib/bz, and allows you to compress your initrd images
> > with bzip2 instead of gzip.
>
> Is this really a good idea? You're not going to be able to decompress the
> initrd on an 8MB machine if it's bz2'd.

How so? According to the docs decompression should only require 600k
plus uncompressed initrd image size.

I'm trying to see if I can cut that 600k down further, though. zlib is
nice in that decompression requires are around 100k or so.

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