On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Gaurav Pant <gaurav...@gmail.com> wrote: > Was just going through kernel.org and saw the default download was in > format of tar.xz > > Seem to be better than gzip, any one used the same? >
Large number of small files are better handled (fault tolerance) via the lzma2 ; some old(er) benchmarks at <http://stephane.lesimple.fr/blog/2010-07-20/lzop-vs-compress-vs-gzip-vs-bzip2-vs-lzma-vs-lzma2xz-benchmark-reloaded.html> > Some info is available here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xz -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://about.me/sankarshan.mukhopadhyay> _______________________________________________ plug-mail mailing list plug-mail@plug.org.in http://list.plug.org.in/listinfo/plug-mail
