#2886 NORM 8.2.0 (: some files shouldn't be compressed by jffs2

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#2886: some files shouldn't be compressed by jffs2
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  Reporter:  tomeu        |       Owner:  dwmw2               
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new                 
  Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  8.2.0 (was Update.2)
 Component:  kernel       |     Version:                      
Resolution:               |    Keywords:                      
  Verified:  0            |    Blocking:                      
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Comment(by cjb):

 > There are some patches out there in the embedded world for something
 along these lines (though not on JFFS2). I'll poke some folks about this.

 Thanks.  I'm sure we'd more than double the speed of the wikipedia
 activity by being able to stop zlib-uncompressing the already-heavily-
 compressed data -- so this is useful even if it's not automatic to start
 with.

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