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To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs?
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On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 02:43:46PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 7zip (LZMA) decompresses quickly, and the decompressor text is actually 
> smaller than the equivalent for gzip.  Quite nice.
> 
> What is not nice is the code for the compressor, which is a total mess. 
>  I have been holding out on implementing LZMA on kernel.org, because 
> just as zip (deflate) didn't become common in the Unix world until an 
> encapsulation format that handles things expected in the Unix world, 
> e.g. streaming, was created (gzip), I don't think LZMA is going to be 
> widely used until there is an "lzip" which does the same thing.  I 
> actually started the work of adding LZMA support to gzip, but then 
> realized it would be better if a new encapsulation format with proper 
> 64-bit support everywhere was created.

It doesn't handle streaming?

So you can't do: tar c dirname | 7zip dirname.tar.7z ?

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Len Sorensen
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