On Sat, 03 Nov 2001, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I agree that bzip2 is great, however, isn't there some instance where > gzip works and bzip2 doesn't? I seem to remember something about > bzip2 doesn't work well with streaming I/O due to it's block-based > design.
I don't know what you mean by "not work well". My guess is it would always work (in addition to the advantage of block recovery). Seems you could always force the issue by: # tar -cf - <dirs> | bzip2 | dd of=/dev/nrmt0 bs=NN # dd if=/dev/nrmt0 bs=NN | bzip2 -d | tar -xf - ... then I can't see how tar or the tape drive know anything about the stream being bzip2, gzip, or raw data... On my next backup of my home LAN (4-5 4GB tapes) I'll try to rememeber to use bzip2 instead of gzip and let you know if there were any problems. Karl ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
