Re: [RFC] Breaking data compatibility with userspace bz2lib

[Nicholas Wourms]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 08:59:15PM +0200, J?rn Engel wrote:
> The big question is whether the bzip2 better compression is actually
> useful in a kernel context?  Patches to do bzip2 for initrd, for
> example, have been around for ages:
> 
> 	http://gtf.org/garzik/kernel/files/initrd-bzip2-2.2.13-2.patch.gz
> 

Not to mention the more current ongoing work by Christian Ludwig for 
2.4.2x support at:

http://shepard.kicks-ass.net/~cc/

Cheers,
Nicholas