On Fri, 1 April 2005 16:22:50 +0100, Artem B. Bityuckiy wrote: > > Another question, does JFFSx *really* need the peaces of a 4K page to be > independently uncompressable? It it wouldn't be required, we would achieve > better compression if we have saved the zstream state. :-) But it is too > late to change things at least for JFFS2.
Absolutely. You can argue that 4KiB is too small and 8|16|32|64|... would be much better, yielding in better compression ratio. But having to read and uncompress the whole file when appending a few bytes is utter madness. Jörn -- I don't understand it. Nobody does. -- Richard P. Feynman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
