El Thu, 18 Sep 2014 18:00:51 -0300 "Matias A. Fonzo" <[email protected]> escribió: > Hello Alexandre, > El Thu, 18 Sep 2014 17:16:53 -0300 > Alexandre Oliva <[email protected]> escribió: > > Disk space shortage that has prevented me from completing > > security-related builds, along with local hard disk problems that > > have prevented me from completing my monthly-ish backups prior to > > cleaning up old builds, have led me to do something I hadn't done > > for a while: removing tarballs of old releases. > > Have you considered to use sourceforge as alternative?. It has mirrors > around the world. > > > I took a slightly different take on it from earlier rounds, though: > > instead of wiping out all old tarballs, I got rid of *.bz2* and > > *.lz* files older than 2 months, while preserving the corresponding > > *.xz* files. > > Why? Lzip can compress more than xz with a bit of tuning via > --options. And it is not forcing users to possess a lot of memory to > decompress .xz. Lzip was designed for long-term archiving, having a > tool to recover corrupt files. Ideal for linux-libre, especially > because it is under the GPL. > > [..] > > Regards, > Matias >
I forgot to include the reference: http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.txt _______________________________________________ linux-libre mailing list [email protected] http://www.fsfla.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-libre
