Re: [RFC PATCH] treewide: remove bzip2 compression support
From: Michal Suchánek <hidden>
Date: 2020-12-15 21:52:56
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- 2020-11-17 · [RFC PATCH] treewide: remove bzip2 compression support · Alex Xu (Hello71) <hidden>
Hello, On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 02:03:15PM -0500, Alex Xu (Hello71) wrote:
bzip2 is either slower or larger than every other supported algorithm, according to benchmarks at [0]. It is far slower to decompress than any other algorithm, and still larger than lzma, xz, and zstd. [0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1588791882.08g1378g67.none@localhost/ (local)
Sounds cool. I wonder how many people will complain that their distribution migrated to bzip2 but got stuck there and now new kernels won't work on there with some odd tool or another :p
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@@ -212,11 +209,6 @@ choice Compression speed is only relevant when building a kernel. Decompression speed is relevant at each boot. - If you have any problems with bzip2 or lzma compressed - kernels, mail me (Alain Knaff) <alain@knaff.lu>. (An older - version of this functionality (bzip2 only), for 2.4, was - supplied by Christian Ludwig) -
Shouldn't the LZMA part be preserved here? Thanks Michal