Messages in this thread | | | From | Alistair John Strachan <> | Subject | Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression | Date | Sun, 21 May 2006 20:03:32 +0100 |
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On Sunday 21 May 2006 15:35, Justin Piszcz wrote: > Was curious as to which utilities would offer the best compression ratio > for the kernel source, I thought it'd be bzip2 or rar but lzma wins, > roughly 6 MiB smaller than bzip2. > > $ du -sk * | sort -n > 33520 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lzma
Somebody needs to make lzma userspace tools (like p7zip) faster, not crash, and behave like a regular UNIX program. Then we need a patch to GNU tar to emerge, and for it to persist for at least 4 years. Then maybe people will adopt this format..
-- Cheers, Alistair.
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