Re: compression support in kmod

2017-01-02 Thread Christoph Biedl
Christian Seiler wrote... > tl;dr: I don't think compression modules will increase boot times > on HDDs in any significant manner, but it may be a good idea to > support that just to reduce the amount of space required on disk. Well, sometimes I remember I was shocked to learn in the MBR partitio

Re: compression support in kmod

2016-12-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 26 Dec 2016 13:29:00 +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: >I volunteer as test subject for that experiment. I would appreciate even >small steps, considering the current laptop in front of me with average >magnetic HDD. Over a minute boot time, which is insane and IMHO mostly >caused by the storm of

Re: compression support in kmod

2016-12-30 Thread Christian Seiler
On 12/29/2016 11:47 PM, Christoph Biedl wrote: > Eduard Bloch wrote... > >> I volunteer as test subject for that experiment. I would appreciate even >> small steps, considering the current laptop in front of me with average >> magnetic HDD. Over a minute boot time, which is insane and IMHO mostly

Re: compression support in kmod

2016-12-29 Thread Christoph Biedl
Eduard Bloch wrote... > I volunteer as test subject for that experiment. I would appreciate even > small steps, considering the current laptop in front of me with average > magnetic HDD. Over a minute boot time, which is insane and IMHO mostly > caused by the storm of IO operations required nowada

Re: compression support in kmod

2016-12-26 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * Josh Triplett [Sun, Dec 25 2016, 07:59:18PM]: > Marco d'Itri wrote: > > Do we want it or not? > > And if we do, should we support gzip, XZ or both? > > > > From time to time some user requests enabling this feature, but since > > Debian kernels do not use it I am not sure that it is a go

Re: compression support in kmod

2016-12-25 Thread Josh Triplett
Marco d'Itri wrote: > Do we want it or not? > And if we do, should we support gzip, XZ or both? > > From time to time some user requests enabling this feature, but since > Debian kernels do not use it I am not sure that it is a good idea to add > one or two library dependencies to kmod. Does it