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SubjectRe: [kernel.org mirrors] Deprecating .gz format on kernel.org
Ryan Finnie wrote:
>
> When I started mirroring kernel.org, I was under the assumption that
> most of the world was still using .gz for the most part, and we are
> under a space constraint that prevents us from having both formats (this
> will change once we get the new server for OSS mirrors up and running).
> However, Matt's stats are pretty interesting. So even though we
> probably won't be depricating .gz right now, I've switched over my
> mirror from .gz to .bz2. Peter, mark me (RN-RNO) down as converted.
>
> Now, if only GNU tar would read .gz OR .bz2 format when specifying -z
> (my fingers automatically type "tar zxvf", and it will take a long time
> to change that. What is bz2? j? That's too hard to remember.)
>

Yes, for decode it should be able to spawn the right program by looking
at the magic number. For encode, well, of course it needs to know. But
yes, it's "j".

-hpa

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