On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 07:13:57PM +0200, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote: > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That's just temporary space. The important is saving storage space in large > > data sets. > > Sure, that's temporary space. But anyway, one must have twice as much > space available when restoring from a 7za archive than when restoring > from an archive compressed with another compression method. And that's > a big drawback.
Yes, but: - It depends on what you do. In my example (thousands of small files), you get a significant gain in permanent space for a minimal cost in temporary space. - It's only an implementation issue. It can be fixed later by implementing streaming properly. - It doesn't need to be better in *everything*. p7zip is also much slower than gzip or even bzip2. Giving users the choice can't make it worse (if/when they don't want it, they won't use it). -- Robert Millan _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
