Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression

Justin Piszcz
2006-05-21T19:28:30Z

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
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