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Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 18:56:56 -0400
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Subject: Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression
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Alistair John Strachan wrote:

> It's a bit of a shame bzip2 even exists, really. It really would be better if 
> there was one unified, pluggable archiver on UNIX (and portables).
> 
All the people with slow connections bless bzip2. If you or someone want 
a new compressor, write a program for it, call it something unique so 
people will know it's different, and be happy.

Even with a fast line, I can only pull as fast as the source can push, 
so smaller is better for all of us. The time to decompress a tar.bz2 and 
tar.gz are very similar, the CPU for bzip2 is about double, and the time 
to create the directories and write the files is the same in either case.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
   Obscure bug of 2004: BASH BUFFER OVERFLOW - if bash is being run by a
normal user and is setuid root, with the "vi" line edit mode selected,
and the character set is "big5," an off-by-one errors occurs during
wildcard (glob) expansion.

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