Messages in this thread | | | From | Con Kolivas <> | Subject | Re: Linux kernel compression with lrzip | Date | Mon, 8 Nov 2010 07:49:46 +1100 |
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On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 01:42:52 Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > 07.11.2010 16:59, Con Kolivas wrote: > > Lrzip > > was a project I began based on rzip which tried to extend the initial > > compression window beyond 900MB and to use lzma as the back end for the > > 2nd stage compression. > > <snip> > > > Starting with linux kernel 2.6.36 > > > > 413511680 linux-2.6.36.tar > > 70277083 linux-2.6.36.tar.bz2 > > 59905365 linux-2.6.36.tar.lrz > > So, why are you comparing to tar.bz2, if you use lzma as the backend? > I.e. this benchmark does nothing to show the benefit from the > preprocessing stage. Please compare to tar.lzma instead.
It smoked the opposition so there was no need, and this was about the bigger files not the one tree.
There's a busload of benchmarks linked.
http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/lrzip/README.benchmarks
Con
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