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On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 10:35:00AM -0400, 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 Since it was requested by somebody: $ du -sk linux-2.6.16.17.* 32904 linux-2.6.16.17.7z 39919 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.bz2 This was done with: 7z -mx=9 -- Bruce Guenter <bruce@untroubled.org> http://untroubled.org/ OpenPGP key: 699980E8 / D0B7 C8DD 365D A395 29DA 2E2A E96F B2DC 6999 80E8 [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | ||||||||||||
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