On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 13:25 -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote: > On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 12:54, sharif islam wrote: > > Is there any compression mechanism that's rated for tar files as big > > as, say, 100GB? > > I don't believe anyone rates compression programs based the size of the > file to be compressed. For files of that size, it is probably useful for compress program to be fast. Bzip2 for example would take ages to compress 100GB. Gzip with a low compress degree (< 5) would be more useful. -- Gérard Milmeister Langackerstrasse 49 CH-8057 Zürich
