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From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: lacos@caesar.elte.hu
Subject: Re: better/faster kernel tarball compression
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:09:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BA741D7.9020008@wpkg.org> (raw)

> 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/


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org


             reply	other threads:[~2010-03-22 10:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-22 10:09 Tomasz Chmielewski [this message]
2010-03-22 12:00 ` better/faster kernel tarball compression Alexander Clouter
2010-03-23 23:21   ` Ersek, Laszlo
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-03-21 21:27 Ersek, Laszlo

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