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From: "Jason Gurtz" <jason@tommyk.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: RE: [9fans] ideas for a new install procedure
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> Also, is 9pcdisk.gz using bzip2? If not, bzip2 can reach higher
> compression rates. Still remember when I had to use `make bzImage'
> instead of `make zImage' for linux...

Not to minimize the (IMHO good) suggestion of using bzip2.  I must point
out that it is quite the common misconception that bzImage uses bzip2.
the "b" stands for  big.  It still uses gzip.  The kernel docs make that
quite clear.

~Jason

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