Re: In response to kernel compression e-mail a few months ago.

[Justin Piszcz]

On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> On Oct 14 2007 15:34, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> > It turns out the one I did not test, was actually the best:
> >
> > Used: 7z -mx=9 a linux-2.6.16.17.tar.7z linux-2.6.16.17.tar
> >
> > $ du -sk * | sort -n
> > 32392 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.7z
> > 33520 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lzma
> > 33760 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.rar
> > 38064 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.rz
> > 39472 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.szip
> > 39520 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.bz
> > 39936 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.bz2
> > 40000 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.bicom
> > 40656 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.sit
> > 47664 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lha
> > 49968 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.dzip
> > 50000 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.gz
> > 51344 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.arj
> > 57552 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lzo
> > 57984 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.F
> > 81136 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.Z
> > 94544 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.zoo
> > 101216 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.arc
> > 228608 linux-2.6.16.17.tar
>
> What's with all these odd formats, and where is .zip? :)
> Somehow... have you tried lrzip?
$ apt-cache search lrzip
$

I tried most of the main ones in the standard testing distribution within 
Debian.

> Furthermore, if the files in the .tar archive were actually sorted..
> (Obviously we shall pick .7z)

Ah, how did I miss zip? :)

$ du -sk * | sort -n
32392 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.7z
33520 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lzma
33760 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.rar
38064 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.rz
39472 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.szip
39520 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.bz
39936 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.bz2
40000 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.bicom
40656 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.sit
47664 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lha
49940 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.zip
49968 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.dzip
50000 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.gz
51344 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.arj
57552 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lzo
57984 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.F
81136 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.Z
94544 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.zoo
101216 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.arc
228608 linux-2.6.16.17.tar

$ du -sh * | sort -n
32M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.7z
33M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lzma
33M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.rar
37M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.rz
39M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.bicom
39M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.bz
39M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.bz2
39M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.szip
40M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.sit
47M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lha
49M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.zip
49M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.dzip
49M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.gz
50M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.arj
56M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lzo
57M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.F
79M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.Z
92M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.zoo
99M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.arc
223M linux-2.6.16.17.tar

Justin.
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