DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: KDE3.4 to have p7zip maybe useful in DSL

The current cloop compressor uses 7-zip anyway as far as I'm aware. Try using the "-b" flag with create_compressed_fs, and look at the last few lines of output - you should see mentions of 7-zip compression.

Quote (TyphoonMentat @ Jan. 16 2005,15:16)

The current cloop compressor uses 7-zip...

Yup, I saw the code just now in 2.x versions.. seems it's closer to the end of the envelope than I thought - I'll go cry now.

original here.