Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression

Stefan Smietanowski
2006-05-22T02:05:51Z

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Justin Piszcz wrote:
> 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

Don't forget about .lzx! Probably need an amiga to use it though :)

BUT I could be remembering wrong but I think that they use a newer
version of lzx compression in .CAB since that guy got a job at MS
back in the days.

// Stefan

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