Thanks for the hints I was thinking about the second solution (add it) (and indeed, I was too wondering which letter could still be available for it, but ok, a long command --lz4 is a nice backup).
The first solution ./configure --with-gzip=lz4 is an interesting intermediate step that I was not aware of, although it seems to entirely remove gzip support from command line. >From my point of view, lz4 does not "replace" gzip. It's very useful for many transmission jobs I do, short-lived traces, log files, and so on, but the stronger compression ratio of gzip will sound preferable for some other usages. Regards On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Sergey Poznyakoff <g...@gnu.org.ua> wrote: > Adam Erikssen <adam.eriks...@gmail.com> ha escrit: > > > Considering that lz4 seems fully compatible with gzip, would it be > > possible to add lz4 to the list of available compressors within the tar > > command line ? > > Do you propose to use it instead of gzip? You can do it using > the --with-gzip option while configuring GNU tar: > > ./configure --with-gzip=lz4 [...] > > On the other hand, if you propose to add it as an additional > complressor, then of course it is possible. Note, however, that we are > out of short command line options, so the only possibility is --lz4. > > In the meantime, instead of > > > tar -c [files] | gzip > archive.tar.gz > > you can do this: > > tat -c -f archive.tar.gz -Ilz4 [...] > > Regards, > Sergey >
