[PATCH v0.5] mtd-utils: mkfs.ubifs: Add support for LZ4HC compression

Konstantin Tokarev annulen at yandex.ru
Mon Oct 7 01:33:54 PDT 2013



07.10.2013, 10:34, "Elie De Brauwer" <eliedebrauwer at gmail.com>:
> Konstantin,
>
> Sounds interesting, I'll integrate this into a next version of the
> patch. Perhaps it make sense just to replace favor_lzo and favor_lz4hc
> into something generic like favor_COMPR1_COMPR2 where COMPR2 gets
> chosen if it is more than favor-percent better than COMPR1. Even
> though today you're probably use lzo/zlib to optimise for size at a
> reasonable cost of some speed  while you're probably use lzo/lz4hc if
> you want to optimise for speed at a reasonable cost of size, but that
> probably makes it more extensible in the future. Does this sound
> reasonable ?

Yeah, that would be useful.

-- 
Regards,
Konstantin



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