Michael Adams | 15 Mar 2011 12:37
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Candidate for packet compression: XZ

Kernel 2.6.38 has adopted a format called XZ for kernel use, as well as some filesystems. Format appears to be optimized for streaming and embedded use. I'll happily test it if anyone wants to plug in some code for it.
 
http://tukaani.org/xz/format.html
http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges
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<div>Kernel 2.6.38 has adopted a format called XZ&nbsp;for kernel use, as 
well as some filesystems. Format appears to be optimized for streaming and 
embedded use. I'll happily test it if anyone wants to plug in some code for 
it.</div>
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http://tukaani.org/xz/format.html</div>
<div>http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges</div>
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Gmane