Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964906AbWEUTDV (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 May 2006 15:03:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964913AbWEUTDV (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 May 2006 15:03:21 -0400 Received: from smtp.bulldogdsl.com ([212.158.248.7]:38917 "EHLO mcr-smtp-001.bulldogdsl.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964906AbWEUTDU (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 May 2006 15:03:20 -0400 X-Spam-Abuse: Please report all spam/abuse matters to abuse@bulldogdsl.com From: Alistair John Strachan To: Justin Piszcz Subject: Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 20:03:32 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, apiszcz@lucidpixels.com References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200605212003.32063.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 895 Lines: 24 On Sunday 21 May 2006 15:35, Justin Piszcz 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. > > $ du -sk * | sort -n > 33520 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lzma Somebody needs to make lzma userspace tools (like p7zip) faster, not crash, and behave like a regular UNIX program. Then we need a patch to GNU tar to emerge, and for it to persist for at least 4 years. Then maybe people will adopt this format.. -- Cheers, Alistair. Third year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK. - 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/