Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:09:27 +0100 | From | Tomasz Chmielewski <> | Subject | Re: better/faster kernel tarball compression |
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> 403804160 linux-2.6.34-rc2.tar > 67479563 linux-2.6.34-rc2.tar.bz2 > 58452531 linux-2.6.34-rc2.tar.lz
Speaking of file sizes, xz[1] already provides better compression:
xz -k -9 linux-2.6.34-rc2.tar
55320408 linux-2.6.34-rc2.tar.xz
xz -e -k -9 linux-2.6.34-rc2.tar
54800808 linux-2.6.34-rc2.tar.xz
One drawback of xz is that it's not multi-threaded, much like bzip2 or gzip; would be great if it could be changed.
[1] http://tukaani.org/xz/
-- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org
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