On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Tony Dziedzic wrote:
|>Is anyone actively working on getting gzip compression to work with LKCD
|>(dump and lcrash)? Before I spend too much time looking at it I thought
|>I'd check that I'm not duplicating anyone else's effort.
I currently am, but I'm waiting for some of this stuff with
zlib in the kernel to finalize. Looks like you've taken
my initial check-ins and moved on them. Cool.
|>I've fixed the bugs that I've found in the drivers/dump gzip code, and
|>the resulting code manages about a 4:1 compression ratio on my test
|>system. Of course, since I can't read the dump with lcrash (yet), it's
|>a little hard to pin any validity on that number ...
Heh. :) How about this, do you want to do the kernel space, and
I'll add the 'lcrash' support? I need to restructure 'lcrash' to
handle multiple dump types anyway ...
|>Thanks,
|>Tony Dziedzic
|>Storigen Systems, Inc.
Thanks, Tony.
--Matt
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