Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 May 2006 18:56:56 -0400 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression |
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Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> It's a bit of a shame bzip2 even exists, really. It really would be better if > there was one unified, pluggable archiver on UNIX (and portables). > All the people with slow connections bless bzip2. If you or someone want a new compressor, write a program for it, call it something unique so people will know it's different, and be happy.
Even with a fast line, I can only pull as fast as the source can push, so smaller is better for all of us. The time to decompress a tar.bz2 and tar.gz are very similar, the CPU for bzip2 is about double, and the time to create the directories and write the files is the same in either case.
-- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> Obscure bug of 2004: BASH BUFFER OVERFLOW - if bash is being run by a normal user and is setuid root, with the "vi" line edit mode selected, and the character set is "big5," an off-by-one errors occurs during wildcard (glob) expansion.
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