Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964970AbWEUVBA (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 May 2006 17:01:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964975AbWEUVBA (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 May 2006 17:01:00 -0400 Received: from smtp102.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.198.201]:41601 "HELO smtp102.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S964970AbWEUVA6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 May 2006 17:00:58 -0400 Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 14:00:56 -0700 From: Chris Wedgwood To: Alistair John Strachan Cc: Justin Piszcz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, apiszcz@lucidpixels.com Subject: Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression Message-ID: <20060521210056.GA3500@taniwha.stupidest.org> References: <200605212003.32063.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200605212003.32063.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 606 Lines: 15 On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 08:03:32PM +0100, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > 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.. why? the gains aren't that great - 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/