Re: In response to kernel compression e-mail a few months ago.

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>]

On Oct 14 2007 15:34, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>
> It turns out the one I did not test, was actually the best:
>
> Used: 7z -mx=9 a linux-2.6.16.17.tar.7z linux-2.6.16.17.tar
>
> $ du -sk * | sort -n
> 32392 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.7z
> 33520 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lzma
> 33760 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.rar
> 38064 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.rz
> 39472 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.szip
> 39520 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.bz
> 39936 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.bz2
> 40000 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.bicom
> 40656 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.sit
> 47664 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lha
> 49968 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.dzip
> 50000 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.gz
> 51344 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.arj
> 57552 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lzo
> 57984 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.F
> 81136 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.Z
> 94544 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.zoo
> 101216 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.arc
> 228608 linux-2.6.16.17.tar

What's with all these odd formats, and where is .zip? :)
Somehow... have you tried lrzip?
Furthermore, if the files in the .tar archive were actually sorted..
(Obviously we shall pick .7z)
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