Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964923AbWEUT2a (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 May 2006 15:28:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964922AbWEUT2a (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 May 2006 15:28:30 -0400 Received: from lucidpixels.com ([66.45.37.187]:14039 "EHLO lucidpixels.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964923AbWEUT2a (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 May 2006 15:28:30 -0400 Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 15:28:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Justin Piszcz X-X-Sender: jpiszcz@p34 To: Jan Engelhardt 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; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1185 Lines: 47 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 > -- > - 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/