thanks for inform about that - didn`t know that it incorporates lzo already!
it really seems that gnu-tar is too conservative for this. i will take a look and give it a try if berlios is back online. btw: i have often experienced problems accessing berlios - is berlios just too unstable website ? regards roland > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) > Gesendet: 21.04.07 22:16:15 > An: [email protected] > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Betreff: Re: [Bug-tar] RE: PATCH: Lzo compression support > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > hi ! > > > > is it planned to add this lzo patch to tar ? > > > > if not, you maintainers should really consider doing so - lzo compression > > is just great and lzop is quite portable, maybe even like gzip and bzip2 > > > > here are some "real world" benchmarks for comparison: > > > > > > time tar cqf|czf|cjf test.dat.lzo|.gz|.bz2 test.dat > > > > lzo: real 0m27.507s user 0m5.824s sys 0m4.170s > > gzip: real 0m47.059s user 0m30.969s sys 0m3.524s > > bzip: real 4m36.405s user 4m6.958s sys 0m2.913s > > > > star does already support lzo as well as 7z compression. > > ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/alpha/ > > I know that star is only able to auto-extract compresed archives in case that > it knows about a sufficient number of algorithms ;-) > > Jörg > > -- > EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ > URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily > _______________________________________________________________ SMS schreiben mit WEB.DE FreeMail - einfach, schnell und kostenguenstig. Jetzt gleich testen! http://f.web.de/?mc=021192
