Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933725AbXJPOWh (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:22:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932412AbXJPOW3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:22:29 -0400 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:60133 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932622AbXJPOW2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:22:28 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:22:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Denys Vlasenko cc: Justin Piszcz , Al Viro , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, apiszcz@solarrain.com Subject: Re: In response to kernel compression e-mail a few months ago. In-Reply-To: <200710161419.07975.vda.linux@googlemail.com> Message-ID: References: <20071014205008.GZ8181@ftp.linux.org.uk> <200710161419.07975.vda.linux@googlemail.com> 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: 1001 Lines: 25 On Oct 16 2007 14:19, Denys Vlasenko wrote: >Sizes in Kb again: > >32392 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.7z >33520 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lzma > >P.S. sorting files by extension in tarball generally helps, but in case >of Linux kernel, they are all C code anyway, so no measurable gain there. Extension is not all so interesting because, as you point out, most of it is C code, and .h files are mostly like .c in that they have structs and function prototype keywords. But sorting by name buys: -rw-r--r-- 1 jengelh users 45477128 Oct 12 18:47 linux-2.6.23.1.orig.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 jengelh users 45560647 Oct 16 16:18 linux-2.6.23.1.new.tar.bz2 (actually, `find "$@" -print0 | sort -z | tar -T- --null --no-r --owner=root --group=root -cvjf "$output";` was used) - 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/