On 01/18/13 02:29, Fbsd8 wrote:
The man page for tar command says there a 4 different compress types you
can use, xz, bzip, bzip2 and gzip.
bzip and bzip2 are synonyms I believe.
Which one is the fastest and compresses the most?
The general rule for compression is that fast and high
The man page for tar command says there a 4 different compress types you
can use, xz, bzip, bzip2 and gzip.
Which one is the fastest and compresses the most?
I am using -z option for gzip and it sure is slow.
Hoping one of the other zip options are better.
What do you guys use?
Another
: tar compression
The man page for tar command says there a 4 different compress types you can
use, xz, bzip, bzip2 and gzip.
Which one is the fastest and compresses the most?
I am using -z option for gzip and it sure is slow.
Hoping one of the other zip options are better.
What do you guys use
Georg Reilinger wrote:
If it doesn't necessarily have to be tar, then I'd recommend using 7zip:
archivers/p7zip
It has among the best compression ratios.
The man page for tar command says there a 4 different compress types you can
use, xz, bzip, bzip2 and gzip.
Which one is the fastest and
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 03:46:31 +0100, Georg Reilinger
georgreilin...@yahoo.de wrote:
If it doesn't necessarily have to be tar, then I'd recommend using 7zip:
archivers/p7zip
It has among the best compression ratios.
It doesn't archive permissions.
I guess the best compression ratio to pack
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 09:29:55PM -0500, Fbsd8 wrote:
The man page for tar command says there a 4 different compress types
you can use, xz, bzip, bzip2 and gzip.
xz uses Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain algorithm.
bzip2 uses Burrows-Wheeler transform.
Which one is the fastest and compresses the
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 03:59:39AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
It doesn't archive permissions.
Which is why, if it is used, one *must* (or *should*) use tar.
Best,
Joe
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