On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 04:24:19PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 16:15 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > xz: tar Jcf > > I'm using a distro that packages with xz. > > I'm sure that there never was a big difference between > "gz: tar zcf" and "bzip2: tar jcf" for the length of the files, but the > time for packing and unpacking does differ very much.
Indeed, bz2 is very slow. But it can be much better at compressing: linux-3.6-rc2.tar.bz2 16-Aug-2012 22:01 78M linux-3.6-rc2.tar.gz 16-Aug-2012 22:01 99M linux-3.6-rc2.tar.xz 16-Aug-2012 22:01 65M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120822145052.GE10344@debian
