Re: [Lzip-bug] Lzip patch for kmod-25

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Mioljub Ivanović wrote:
> We have some filesystems in linux kernel such as SquashFS 4.0 and JFFS2 also
> zram (zsmalloc) where we can use lzip compression instead lz4 (lzo or xz).
> It will be nice to have lzip patch for SquashFS 4.0 filesystem and zram
> (zsmalloc) (why not JFFS2).

I plan to write a patch for SquashFS when I find the time. Sadly, 
patching SquashFS is not as easy as patching kmod or kexec-tools. I am 
very busy and it may take months for me to start writing such a patch.

Have you tried asking the SquashFS, zsmalloc and JFFS2 developers to add 
lzip support?


> What is Your opinion about such request (according to
> https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html).

My opinion is that lzip is way safer than xz for filesystem applications 
because of its better interoperability.


Best regards,
Antonio.