Re: better/faster kernel tarball compression

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

> 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/


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Tomasz Chmielewski
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