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Date:      13 Mar 2002 16:46:16 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, peter@FreeBSD.ORG, jake@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dumpsys() rewrite
Message-ID:  <xzpbsds8o8n.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <p05101560b8b522a7f8a1@[128.113.24.47]>
References:  <xzp3cz5v7rp.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20020313093805.GA29679@genius.tao.org.uk> <xzp7kogbwmy.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <p05101560b8b522a7f8a1@[128.113.24.47]>

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Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> writes:
> Would it make any sense to compress it in the 'gzip' sense of
> the word (or some simpler algorithm)?

Not really.  The compression rate is not sufficiently predictable, and
dumping would be s...l...o...w...

>                                        Or does it already do
> some of that?

savecore(1) does.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org

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