Candidate for packet compression: XZ

Michael Adams madams at ezrac.com
Tue Mar 15 12:37:20 CET 2011


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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