lz4hc compression in UBIFS?
Artem Bityutskiy
dedekind1 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 4 00:44:44 PDT 2013
On Thu, 2013-10-03 at 22:09 -0500, Brent Taylor wrote:
> +config UBIFS_FS_LZ4HC
> + bool "LZ4HC compression support" if UBIFS_FS_ADVANCED_COMPR
> + depends on UBIFS_FS && CRYPTO_LZ4HC
> + default y
> + help
> + LZ4HC compressor is generally faster than zlib but compresses worse.
> + Say 'Y' if unsure.
I'd say something like:
LZ4HC is generally beats LZO on decompression speed while provides a lot
better compression ratio (comparable to zlib). Compression speed is
generally slower comparing to LZO, but faster comparing to zlib.
Makes sense?
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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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