Re: squashfs compressed file system update?
On Thu Feb 20, 2003 at 12:39:14PM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote:
> It's interesting to note that in this case -8 and -9 yield the same
> results, but -9 requires more memory at the time of decompression and
> compression. I suspect the memory usage statistics will remain constant
> for any file (inherent in block sorting), not just the corpus. The
> compression results will of course vary depending on the input file.
I think we should use lzip compression
http://lzip.sourceforge.net/
It uses a constant-time lossy compression algorithm that is
guaranteed to reduce files to 0% of their original size. ;-)
-Erik
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