linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel

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Date:	Thu, 10 May 2007 10:49:13 +0200
From:	Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@...g.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add LZO1X compression support to the kernel

David Woodhouse wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 23:21 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> Well that's attractive-looking code.
> 
> It's compression code. I've never seen compression code look nice :)
> 
>> Why is this needed?  What code plans to use it?
> 
> I'm itching to use it in JFFS2. Richard claims a 10% boot time speedup
> and 40% improvement on file read speed, with only a slight drop in the
> file compression ratio (when compared to zlib).

Would be interesting to have it as a shared base for 
planned-for-May-2020 "compressed tmpfs" (and, perhaps a filesystem with 
compression, which seems even harder to engineer properly).


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski

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