Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 May 2006 04:05:45 +0200 | From | Stefan Smietanowski <> | Subject | Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression |
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Justin Piszcz wrote: > Compressed with -9. > > -9 slowest (best) compression > > Unsure on the maximum distance. > > Version info: > > rzip 2.1 > Copright (C) Andrew Tridgell 1998-2003 > > > On Sun, 21 May 2006, Jan Engelhardt 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. >>> >> You forgot: >> - .7z 7zip >> - .j JAR (www.arjsoftware.com) >> - .ice LHICE (some sort of "brother" to lharc aka lzh) >> - .ace ACE (www.winace.com) >> - UPX (yes!, you just need to put '#!/\n' at the front) >> - .cab MS CAB (use winace) >> - .bh BlackHole >> - .pak PKARC 2.51 >> - .sqz SqueezeIt >> - "LZEXE" >> >> ftp://camelot.spsl.nsc.ru/pub/win32/arc/ - you'll find some there >> happy packing :) >> >>> 38064 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.rz >> >> >> - is this rzip with _maximum_ distance? >> >> >> Jan Engelhardt
Don't forget about .lzx! Probably need an amiga to use it though :)
BUT I could be remembering wrong but I think that they use a newer version of lzx compression in .CAB since that guy got a job at MS back in the days.
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