linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] Squashfs: add LZ4 compression

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Message-ID: <CAB3wodfLzHMS1b3kQXKYvmWLLoYOhenwmMfS-cSU3w1gLFCh-g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 23 Jul 2013 17:17:30 +0100
From:	Phillip Lougher <phillip.lougher@...il.com>
To:	Bruno Wolff III <bruno@...ff.to>
Cc:	Phillip Lougher <phillip@...ashfs.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Squashfs: add LZ4 compression

On 23 July 2013 16:10, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@...ff.to> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 03:21:01 +0100,
>   Phillip Lougher <phillip@...ashfs.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Now that LZ4 compression support is in 3.11-rc1, I have written the
>> following two patches for Squashfs to use it.
>
>
> If this gets accepted are you going to move the LZ4 changes to
> squashfs-tools  into the stable branch? I'd like to make LZ4 work in
> mksquashfs in at least rawhide once LZ4 is usable for squashfs file systems
> in the kernel. So I was wondering whether to expect this to appear in stable
> shortly or to expect to start doing builds using the master branch.

Hmm, good point.... I was intending to merge the LZ4 work onto stable
yesterday or today, but, I've received more resistance to the idea of
LZ4 in Squashfs than I expected....  I'm not sure that merging LZ4
onto stable now gives the right message, because if it does not go
into mainline, it will effectively be experimental or abandoned.

In otherwords I don't think it's wise yet to merge LZ4 onto stable,
not until at least there's some positive feedback on the mailing list.

Thoughts?  Maybe some positive feedback? :-)

A V2 of the patches will be coming ASAP hopefully with some performance stats.

Thanks

Phillip
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