Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964898AbWEUSlY (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 May 2006 14:41:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964899AbWEUSlY (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 May 2006 14:41:24 -0400 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:43917 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964898AbWEUSlY (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 May 2006 14:41:24 -0400 Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 20:40:56 +0200 (MEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Justin Piszcz cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, apiszcz@lucidpixels.com Subject: Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 940 Lines: 32 > > 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 -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/