in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Gary W. Swearingen thusly... > > I compressed a filesystem dump (on Athlon 64/3200+, i386 OS) and > > bzip2 compressed to 50% of 2 GB in 1118 sec > gzip compressed to 52% of 2 GB in 306 sec > > But bzip2 can compress much better than that on some stuff. > > If your goal is a small backup, bzip compresses better. > If your goal is a quick backup to disk, gzip is faster. > If your goal is a quick backup to tape, bzip is faster > because tape is so slow, unless your CPU can't keep up.
In this context, by "bzip" did you actually meant "bzip2"? (There is a archivers/bzip port.) - Parv -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
