Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 May 2006 15:28:28 -0400 (EDT) | From | Justin Piszcz <> | Subject | Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression |
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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 > -- > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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