> The only reservation I have is inexperience with lbzip2, and at least one 
> comparison I saw cited high memory requirements and out of memory crashes 
> with lbzip2. I will have to find the page when I'm back at a computer, and it 
> may very well have been addressed by now.

That applies to anything, until you use it for the first time ;)

But yes, if it has issues like these you describe, we should test it. I would 
bet though that if it did have such problems, they would be fixed pretty 
sharpish ...

> 
> Not being updated in a while is not a bad sign for a tool you just want to 
> work.

Apologies, I wasn’t intending to imply it was better maintained than pbzip2, 
just to seems to have good support of its own upstream. The fact Fedora plans 
to switch to it is also I think a good sign.

> 
> The unzipping anything in parallel, however, is a distinct advantage, and 
> makes it worth examining.

I think, if true, it would be a killer point, as it would mean we would benefit 
automatically, with existing archives. 

> 
>   - Eric

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