Re: better/faster kernel tarball compression
From: Tomasz Chmielewski
Date: Mon Mar 22 2010 - 06:09:45 EST
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/
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Tomasz Chmielewski
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