Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759706AbXJNTxR (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:53:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755410AbXJNTxE (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:53:04 -0400 Received: from lucidpixels.com ([75.144.35.66]:50066 "EHLO lucidpixels.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753901AbXJNTxC (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:53:02 -0400 Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:53:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Justin Piszcz X-X-Sender: jpiszcz@p34.internal.lan To: Jan Engelhardt 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; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2661 Lines: 96 On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > 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? $ apt-cache search lrzip $ I tried most of the main ones in the standard testing distribution within Debian. > Furthermore, if the files in the .tar archive were actually sorted.. > (Obviously we shall pick .7z) > Ah, how did I miss zip? :) $ 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 49940 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.zip 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 $ du -sh * | sort -n 32M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.7z 33M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lzma 33M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.rar 37M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.rz 39M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.bicom 39M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.bz 39M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.bz2 39M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.szip 40M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.sit 47M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lha 49M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.zip 49M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.dzip 49M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.gz 50M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.arj 56M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lzo 57M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.F 79M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.Z 92M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.zoo 99M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.arc 223M linux-2.6.16.17.tar Justin. - 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/