Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression

[Justin Piszcz]

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
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