On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 05:27:59PM +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
On Monday, February 16, 2015 at 12:16:06 AM, Eric Nelson wrote:
Initial filesystem images are generally highly compressible.
Add a routine gzwrite that allows gzip-compressed images to be written to block devices.
Signed-off-by: Eric Nelson eric.nelson@boundarydevices.com
Hi!
Stupid question -- can't you compress the thing in DRAM and then use fatwrite or ext4write to write it to FS? Or are you really after writing the data to a raw block device (in which case, you can use similar commands for raw block devices) ?
I _think_ (and I really hope so otherwise yes, this series needs more expanation) that was this adds is the ability to {de,}compress on the fly rather than need to duplicate in DDR which could be hard-to-impossible depending on the size of the data in question.