Re: PATCH: bzip2 support for initrd

Matthew Wilcox (Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com)
Wed, 27 Oct 1999 17:04:05 +0200

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.

-- 
Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>
"Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of
specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a
painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson


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