Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751065Ab0BGFH2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Feb 2010 00:07:28 -0500 Received: from mail-iw0-f201.google.com ([209.85.223.201]:58066 "EHLO mail-iw0-f201.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750813Ab0BGFH0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Feb 2010 00:07:26 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=UvasvlJaLNBY8XtG7a+UDOy7S+1K0dNFZ2c3d5R63w2RtR7KEirgJQZTuADgOOPEhk zIO3lcULl3pWqcPoXfLkuErxehwTbImYRdpo5DUdKOqgOZ95S7PsH/l4gJrEkh1m4j6A WUwuiWwCArT0pkook484gEkVnyJGVSsy5xjCc= Message-ID: <4B6E4AF2.8080603@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:09:06 -0800 From: "Justin P. Mattock" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20091114 Lightning/1.0pre Thunderbird/3.0b4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Lord CC: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.33-rc7 References: <4B6E4793.3010201@teksavvy.com> In-Reply-To: <4B6E4793.3010201@teksavvy.com> 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: 1273 Lines: 35 On 02/06/10 20:54, Mark Lord wrote: > 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/ > what about the new lz thing? (heck haven't even figured that out yet). Justin P. Mattock -- 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/