Re: [PLUG] xz compression

2016-04-20 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Gaurav Pant 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

[PLUG] xz compression

2016-04-20 Thread Gaurav Pant
Hi, 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? Some info is available here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xz -- Dexter --- http://OpenSourceCook.in If you can cook,