Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754586Ab0BGKt7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Feb 2010 05:49:59 -0500 Received: from mx2.cluster1.pyrox.eu ([78.46.200.219]:57927 "EHLO mx2.cluster1.pyrox.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753781Ab0BGKt6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Feb 2010 05:49:58 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 558 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:49:57 EST Message-ID: <4B6E9866.8070108@feurix.com> Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:39:34 +0100 From: John Feuerstein User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100206 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: "Justin P. Mattock" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.33-rc7 References: <4B6E4793.3010201@teksavvy.com> <4B6E4AF2.8080603@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4B6E4AF2.8080603@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 OpenPGP: id=5C7CB166 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1806 Lines: 48 I've looked up the GNU tar history, just in case this is relevant: [1] 1994-11-16 Version 1.11 -z --gzip [2] 1999-02-01 Version 1.12 -y --bzip2 [3] 2000-10-24 Version 1.12+ -j --bzip2 [4] 2007-10-17 Version 1.20+ --lzma [5] 2008-06-26 Version 1.20+ -J --lzma [6] 2008-06-26 Version 1.20+ --lzop [7] 2009-03-04 Version 1.21+ -J --xz GNU Tar: http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/ [1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=tar.git;a=commit;h=17badf1 [2] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=tar.git;a=commit;h=6ccb513 [3] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=tar.git;a=commit;h=caf6047 [4] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=tar.git;a=commit;h=620a136 [5] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=tar.git;a=commit;h=c9a7297 [6] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=tar.git;a=commit;h=c9a7297 [7] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=tar.git;a=commit;h=c10830a 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 bzip2 or better, but then again, I'm usually working in GNU environments. Mark Lord wrote: > what about the new lz thing? > (heck haven't even figured that out yet). Have a look at: - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xz - http://tukaani.org/xz/format.html -- John Feuerstein -- 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/