Re: GEOM_ULZMA

2010-03-03 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 21 February 2010 02:20, Adrian Chadd 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 o

Re: svn commit: r204615 - head/sbin/newfs

2010-03-03 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Xin LI wrote: > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Maxim Sobolev wrote: >> Xin LI wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Maxim Sobolev wrote: Author: sobomax Date: Wed Mar  3 02:05:09 2010 New Revision: 204615 URL: http://svn.freebsd.

Re: svn commit: r204615 - head/sbin/newfs

2010-03-03 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 12:44:06AM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: ... > Maxim, > > Xin Li has a point. I ran some tests and the ad hoc parsing function > eats up more memory than expand_number(3) [*]: as someone reminded me, a static library only brings in the archive members you actually use, wher

Re: GEOM_ULZMA

2010-03-03 Thread Tim Kientzle
Adrian Chadd wrote: On 21 February 2010 02:20, Adrian Chadd 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 a

Re: GEOM_ULZMA

2010-03-03 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 08:29:14AM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: > Adrian Chadd wrote: > >On 21 February 2010 02:20, Adrian Chadd 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".