Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression

[Alistair John Strachan]

On Sunday 21 May 2006 15:35, 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

Somebody needs to make lzma userspace tools (like p7zip) faster, not crash, 
and behave like a regular UNIX program. Then we need a patch to GNU tar to 
emerge, and for it to persist for at least 4 years. Then maybe people will 
adopt this format..

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
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