Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758644AbXJNTqZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:46:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754514AbXJNTqQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:46:16 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:50682 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753235AbXJNTqQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:46:16 -0400 Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:46:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Justin Piszcz cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, apiszcz@solarrain.com Subject: Re: In response to kernel compression e-mail a few months ago. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1234 Lines: 37 On Oct 14 2007 15:34, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > It turns out the one I did not test, was actually the best: > > Used: 7z -mx=9 a linux-2.6.16.17.tar.7z linux-2.6.16.17.tar > > $ du -sk * | sort -n > 32392 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.7z > 33520 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lzma > 33760 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.rar > 38064 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.rz > 39472 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.szip > 39520 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.bz > 39936 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.bz2 > 40000 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.bicom > 40656 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.sit > 47664 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lha > 49968 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.dzip > 50000 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.gz > 51344 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.arj > 57552 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lzo > 57984 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.F > 81136 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.Z > 94544 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.zoo > 101216 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.arc > 228608 linux-2.6.16.17.tar What's with all these odd formats, and where is .zip? :) Somehow... have you tried lrzip? Furthermore, if the files in the .tar archive were actually sorted.. (Obviously we shall pick .7z) - 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/