Bob Friesenhahn writes: > On Wed, 31 Oct 2018, Volker A. Brandt wrote: > > > > John is absolutely right. The numbers speak for themselves. :-) > > I see only relatively small compression gains so the content must be > partially compressed already, or does not compress well.
Well, >100 MB per file seems not so small to me. As others have pointed out, the files themselves are compressed already, but the USB format has some fluff. > Lzma type compression (e.g from xz, lzip, or 7z) will do better than > zip for this purpose. Note that I used bzip2. Not everyone has xz or 7z around. The format does not really matter in the end, as the relative gains per format are indeed small. Regards -- Volker -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Volker A. Brandt Consulting and Support for Solaris-based Systems Brandt & Brandt Computer GmbH WWW: http://www.bb-c.de/ Am Wiesenpfad 6, 53340 Meckenheim, GERMANY Email: [email protected] Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Bonn, HRB 10513 Schuhgröße: 46 Geschäftsführer: Rainer J.H. Brandt und Volker A. Brandt "When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead" _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
