Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Add xxhash and zstd modules

From	Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Add xxhash and zstd modules
Date	2017-06-30 22:00 +0200
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> If i understood all correctly,
> zstd can compress (decompress) data in way compatible with gzip (zlib)
> Do that also true for in kernel library?

The zstd command line tool can decompress gzip/zlib compressed data, and
can compress in the gzip format. However, the zstd format is not compatible
with zlib, so gzip/zlib cannot decompress zstd compressed data. The zstd
kernel module can only compress and decompress the zstd format, and can't
decompress zlib/gzip compressed data.

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[PATCH v2 0/4] Add xxhash and zstd modules Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com> - 2017-06-29 21:50 +0200
  [PATCH v2 4/4] squashfs: Add zstd support Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com> - 2017-06-29 22:10 +0200
  [PATCH v2 3/4] btrfs: Add zstd support Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com> - 2017-06-29 22:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] btrfs: Add zstd support Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> - 2017-06-30 05:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Add xxhash and zstd modules David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz> - 2017-06-30 09:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Add xxhash and zstd modules Timofey Titovets <nefelim4ag@gmail.com> - 2017-06-30 18:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Add xxhash and zstd modules Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com> - 2017-06-30 22:00 +0200

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