Shoot, sorry. I didn't mean for this to go to kernel.
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Ben Cadieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I just wanted to know if there's any interest for the devs to add > something like p7zip to the base install; even if it's a simple fork > that only supports 7z. While 7zip is about as obnoxiously slow as > bzip2, it usually gets much better compression. > > That's not why I'm suggesting it though - what really gets me is that > bzip2 has no "list" option. Does that 10 gb bzip2 backup archive > contain 100gb of data, or 200gb? Other than dumping the entire > archive to /dev/null through wc, there's really no way to do it. Gzip > will list files, but its compression ratio is awful. > > I imagine that other OSes are going to be watching Dragonfly very > carefully in the next while as new the features (especially HAMMER) > mature. Maybe adding 7z will get yet another bandwagon going and > there will be support across the board :) > > Best Regards, > Ben Cadieux >
