jffs zlib tuning

[Bernardo Innocenti]

NoiseEHC wrote:

> It is unfortunate that it was not discussed on this list. Anyway, at 
> least I have learnt writing Linux drivers in the process...
> What compression can be achieved with LZO? Last time I used it only for 
> real time compression (backup), and not because of the compression 
> ratio. (I suppose that you have tested it.)

Note that we compress 4KB blocks in jffs2.  With small block sizes,
algorithms with better compression tend to loose most of their
advantage.

We can't say much until we benchmark lzo vs gzip with small
files.

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