Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression

Chris Wedgwood
2006-05-21T21:01:00Z

On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 08:03:32PM +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote:

> Somebody needs to make lzma userspace tools (like p7zip) faster, not
> crash, and behave like a regular UNIX program. Then we need a patch
> to GNU tar to emerge, and for it to persist for at least 4
> years. Then maybe people will adopt this format..

why?

the gains aren't that great