On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 12:42:46PM -0600, John Arbash Meinel wrote: > Remember, the tarball is compressed, so you do get a little bit of delta > compression even though there are 2 copies in there.
Negative on that, AFAICT... % dd if=/dev/urandom of=file1 bs=1k count=1k 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 1048576 bytes transferred in 0.338545 seconds (3097302 bytes/sec) % cp file1 file2 % ls -l file1 file2 -rw-r--r-- 1 wisq wisq 1048576 2005-03-24 18:50 file1 -rw-r--r-- 1 wisq wisq 1048576 2005-03-24 18:51 file2 % tar -zcf files.tar.gz file1 file2 % ls -l files.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 wisq wisq 2097810 2005-03-24 18:51 files.tar.gz
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