Re: Swap Compression

From: Jörn Engel (joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de)
Date: Wed Apr 30 2003 - 07:59:13 EST

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On Wed, 30 April 2003 12:48:07 +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
>
> I don't think a parallel project is a bad idea either. I was just suggesting
> adding the minilzo algorithm from the linuxcompressed project as one of the
> compression algorithms available.

Actually, I'd like a central compression library with a large
assortment of algorithms. That way the really common code is shared
between both (or more) projects is shared.

Also, yet another unused compression algorithm hurts about as bad, as
yet another unused device driver. It just grows the kernel .tar.bz2.

Jörn

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