From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux kernel compression with lrzip
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 07:49:46 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201011080749.46824.kernel@kolivas.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CD6BAEC.2070605@gmail.com>
On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 01:42:52 Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> 07.11.2010 16:59, Con Kolivas wrote:
> > Lrzip
> > was a project I began based on rzip which tried to extend the initial
> > compression window beyond 900MB and to use lzma as the back end for the
> > 2nd stage compression.
>
> <snip>
>
> > Starting with linux kernel 2.6.36
> >
> > 413511680 linux-2.6.36.tar
> > 70277083 linux-2.6.36.tar.bz2
> > 59905365 linux-2.6.36.tar.lrz
>
> So, why are you comparing to tar.bz2, if you use lzma as the backend?
> I.e. this benchmark does nothing to show the benefit from the
> preprocessing stage. Please compare to tar.lzma instead.
It smoked the opposition so there was no need, and this was about the bigger
files not the one tree.
There's a busload of benchmarks linked.
http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/lrzip/README.benchmarks
Con
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2010-11-07 11:59 Linux kernel compression with lrzip Con Kolivas
2010-11-07 14:42 ` Alexander E. Patrakov
2010-11-07 20:49 ` Con Kolivas [this message]
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