From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752254Ab0CVKJm (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:09:42 -0400 Received: from mx03.syneticon.net ([78.111.66.105]:52693 "EHLO mx03.syneticon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750877Ab0CVKJk (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:09:40 -0400 Message-ID: <4BA741D7.9020008@wpkg.org> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:09:27 +0100 From: Tomasz Chmielewski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100302 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: lacos@caesar.elte.hu Subject: Re: better/faster kernel tarball compression Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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