On 21 February 2010 02:20, Adrian Chadd <adr...@freebsd.org> wrote: > Oh I know that! I'm just saying that I may try lzma'ing the kernel and > rootfs's to see what kind of savings I get over gzip. :)
The answer is "whoa". 24 megabyte compressed kernel + MDROOT drops to 6.5 megabytes with gzip -9 and a few bytes shy of 5 megabytes with a default lzma compress. .. wow. :) This is +1 for GEOM_ULZMA too if it's as effective for the mfs itself. I'll toy with that later. Adrian _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
