Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932413AbWEVCFv (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 May 2006 22:05:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932493AbWEVCFv (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 May 2006 22:05:51 -0400 Received: from mxfep01.bredband.com ([195.54.107.70]:17299 "EHLO mxfep01.bredband.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932413AbWEVCFu (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 May 2006 22:05:50 -0400 Message-ID: <44711C79.6090004@stesmi.com> Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 04:05:45 +0200 From: Stefan Smietanowski User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8-1.1.fc4 (X11/20060501) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Justin Piszcz CC: Jan Engelhardt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, apiszcz@lucidpixels.com Subject: Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-ripemd160; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigA3770CF9894ECA9624CC4185" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2185 Lines: 78 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigA3770CF9894ECA9624CC4185 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Justin Piszcz wrote: > 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 Don't forget about .lzx! Probably need an amiga to use it though :) BUT I could be remembering wrong but I think that they use a newer version of lzx compression in .CAB since that guy got a job at MS back in the days. // Stefan --------------enigA3770CF9894ECA9624CC4185 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEcRx8Brn2kJu9P78RA05UAKDHZcsL6Hbk2V7srrCn+xk1R0O6ogCfRf+j uxoI8A1C4sQ31IIKeA1pjeM= =3/ec -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigA3770CF9894ECA9624CC4185-- - 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/