[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH v3] package/utils/usbutils: Update USB IDs list and drop gzip compression

[Daniel Engberg]

On 2016-04-17 15:12, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
> On 04/07/2016 08:50 AM, Daniel Engberg wrote:
>> Change mirror to Github (Gentoo repo) and drop the gzip compression.
>> Worst case there's about 4kbyte increase in size but most images ends up
>> beign somewhere between 4-100kbyte smaller due to the lzma compression.
>>
>> Tested on ar71xx
> 
> using the uncompressed version reduces the size when it is added to the
> squasfs image, but what happens when it gets installed later to the the
> overlay file system?
> 
> Hauke
> 

I haven't tested but the end result should be similar as according to the wiki
the jffs2 filesystem also uses lzma compression.
https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/techref/filesystems#jffs2

//Daniel
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