Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964899AbWJCSX5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 14:23:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964900AbWJCSX5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 14:23:57 -0400 Received: from iriserv.iradimed.com ([69.44.168.233]:56336 "EHLO iradimed.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964899AbWJCSX4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 14:23:56 -0400 Message-ID: <4522AAC1.7050703@cfl.rr.com> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:24:01 -0400 From: Phillip Susi User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt CC: Willy Tarreau , Drew Scott Daniels , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Smaller compressed kernel source tarballs? References: <20061002033511.GB12695@zimmer> <20061002033531.GA5050@1wt.eu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Oct 2006 18:24:06.0325 (UTC) FILETIME=[1C657E50:01C6E719] X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: SMEX-7.2.0.1122-3.6.1039-14728.003 X-TM-AS-Result: No--11.548000-5.000000-31 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 767 Lines: 17 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > There are lots of obscure compression formats that achieve somewhat > better compression at the cost of MUCH more time (neglecting they are > not too open), such as MS CAB and ACE. CAB is an archive container format, not a compression algorithm. Last time I worked on some code to handle it, they used the standard LZW algorithm implemented by gzip ( but had the ability to support others in the future ) and could only compress 32kb blocks. The small block size led to poor compression. - 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/