Re: [gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared

2005-08-17 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 10:55 am, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Friday 12 August 2005 23:58, Jerry McBride wrote: What you're seeing are the results of compressing /lib on my gentoo powered laptop. For comparison purposes, what compression levels did you specify for bz2 and gz? -- Kirk

Re: [gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared

2005-08-16 Thread Matt Randolph
Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 09:36 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: On Saturday 13 August 2005 01:32 am, Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 00:58 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: Anyone else here subscribe to the LINUX JOURNAL? In the September issue there's a neat

Re: [gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared

2005-08-16 Thread Matt Randolph
Matt Randolph wrote: Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 09:36 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: On Saturday 13 August 2005 01:32 am, Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 00:58 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: Anyone else here subscribe to the LINUX JOURNAL? In the September issue

Re: [gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared

2005-08-16 Thread Matt Randolph
Matt Randolph wrote: Matt Randolph wrote: This may be a case of a different paradigm being used by 7-zip than that used by traditional (*nix) compression tools. If my memory serves me, the 7-zip format is very similar to the pkzip format in its usage. By that I mean that one is not

Re: [gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared

2005-08-15 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 09:36 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: On Saturday 13 August 2005 01:32 am, Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 00:58 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: Anyone else here subscribe to the LINUX JOURNAL? In the September issue there's a neat article titled tha same as the

Re: [gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared

2005-08-13 Thread Fernando Meira
Hi, that lzma is quite impressive!! Is not my purpose to hijack this topic, but I was wondering if anyone is kind enough to give me some comments about linux magazines. I been looking into that for some time, but not enough to subscribe one, as I wish to do. I know about Linux Journal and Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared

2005-08-13 Thread fire-eyes
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 12:13 +, Fernando Meira wrote: Hi, that lzma is quite impressive!! Interesting, there is an .ebuild in the source too ;) It's not in portage, however. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared

2005-08-13 Thread Stephen Micheals
ive used lzma for a while in windows using 7zip but have not had much time to test it in linux using p7zip yet. (emerge p7zip) On 8/13/05, fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 12:13 +, Fernando Meira wrote: Hi, that lzma is quite impressive!! Interesting, there is

Re: [gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared

2005-08-13 Thread Zac Medico
fire-eyes wrote: Sounds like P7 doesn't have the capability to remember user names group names etc, definately a i'd try it killer for me. If it's anything like gzip or bzip2 then the compression algorithm does not need to support anything like usernames or groups. That stuff is handled by

Re: [gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared

2005-08-13 Thread Norberto Bensa
Jerry McBride wrote: One side note, 7za does not record user/group info... It's a shame too as this make it pretty much useless in most linux backup scenarios. So what's the problem? You'll be using something like tar | 7z or whatever the command for lzma is. I mean, tar handles ownership

Re: [gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared

2005-08-13 Thread fire-eyes
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 11:49 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: So what's the problem? You'll be using something like tar | 7z or whatever the command for lzma is. I mean, tar handles ownership and permissions. Or am I missing something? I could be missing something, my brain isn't working right

[gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared

2005-08-12 Thread Jerry McBride
Anyone else here subscribe to the LINUX JOURNAL? In the September issue there's a neat article titled tha same as the subject line of this message. The skinny is, there's some really nice file compressors out there and I never heard of two of them... Anyone else know about LZMA or 7ZA? The

Re: [gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared

2005-08-12 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 00:58 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: Anyone else here subscribe to the LINUX JOURNAL? In the September issue there's a neat article titled tha same as the subject line of this message. The skinny is, there's some really nice file compressors out there and I never

Re: [gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared

2005-08-12 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 00:58 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: Anyone else here subscribe to the LINUX JOURNAL? In the September issue errr *grumble* yes but in this part of the world we actually get the september issue in september, not the start of august! -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] --