Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754462Ab0BGEyp (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Feb 2010 23:54:45 -0500 Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:41676 "EHLO ironport2-out.pppoe.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753759Ab0BGEyo (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Feb 2010 23:54:44 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjkBAHLWbUtLd/sX/2dsb2JhbAAIgyrFY48dgS+CSlsE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.49,420,1262581200"; d="scan'208";a="55478359" Message-ID: <4B6E4793.3010201@teksavvy.com> Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:54:43 -0500 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.33-rc7 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 867 Lines: 22 Linus Torvalds wrote: > Do people really care about the old-fashioned tar.gz and patch.gz files? > I've always uploaded the tar-files and patches compressed with gzip, > because that's the "traditional" way, and then we have a script that also > re-compresses things as 'bz2' because it compresses better and many people > are bandwidth-limited and much prefer the better compression. .. I prefer the .gz files, despite limited bandwidth here. My older, slower CPUs cope with them better. But .bz2-only would be fine as well. I just wish the GNU tar folk had the sense to combine -z and -j into a single flag. -ml -- 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/