[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi ! > > is it planned to add this lzo patch to tar ? > > if not, you maintainers should really consider doing so - lzo compression is > just great and lzop is quite portable, maybe even like gzip and bzip2 > > here are some "real world" benchmarks for comparison: > > > time tar cqf|czf|cjf test.dat.lzo|.gz|.bz2 test.dat > > lzo: real 0m27.507s user 0m5.824s sys 0m4.170s > gzip: real 0m47.059s user 0m30.969s sys 0m3.524s > bzip: real 4m36.405s user 4m6.958s sys 0m2.913s >
star does already support lzo as well as 7z compression. ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/alpha/ I know that star is only able to auto-extract compresed archives in case that it knows about a sufficient number of algorithms ;-) Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
