On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 04:05:28PM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Sun, 2017-04-16 at 09:35 +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 04:37:02PM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > > > And we need this in base for what great purpose??? > > > > > zstandard is the successor to lz4, there are attempts to integrate > > zstandard in > > ZFS, Allan Jude is working on that, I am working on integrating in > > libstand to > > allow to boot a kernel compressed with zstandard or a mfsroot with > > zstandard, > > which would benefit lots of pxe users. > > > > I have also added it to newsyslog(8) so users can benefit zstandard > > compression > > for the log files, which will consume less CPUs for greater > > compression that > > bzip2. On low ended boxes with low storage this is actually very > > useful as well. > > > > I haven't checked yet the performances on my armv6 boxes, but on the > > low ended > > recent atom laptops I can tell this is already very useful. > > > > Bapt > > Does it also need to be added to the toolkit in /rescue? The other > major compression tools in base are there.
I'm not sure it is worth it, is it? Bapt
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