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Offline aw

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xz compressed squashfs extensions
« on: November 25, 2016, 06:46:08 AM »
Hi,

Would it be possible to compile future versions of the TinyCore kernel with the option:

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CONFIG_SQUASHFS_XZ=y
This would allow the mounting of xz compressed extensions created with mksquashfs dir extension.tcz -comp xz.

As many are aware, xz provides significant improvement in compression / space reduction compared to gzip.

Secondly, rather that compressing kernel modules with *.ko.gz, they could also be compressed to *.ko.xz to save even more space.
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Re: xz compressed squashfs extensions
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2016, 07:32:34 AM »
Read Core Book on this topic why xz is not used with tcz packages.
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Re: xz compressed squashfs extensions
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2016, 07:57:23 AM »
The kernel support could be added, as it doesn't seem to be too big. But for modules and extensions, it is far too slow and too memory hungry.
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Re: xz compressed squashfs extensions
« Reply #3 on: November 25, 2016, 09:25:11 PM »
Thanks. In that case it might lead to more problems if people begin making extensions compressed with xz.. perhaps a better idea to keep it disabled/out of the kernel.
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