On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 18:15 -0600, John Arbash Meinel wrote: > I don't know what the gzip window is, but the bzip2 window is 900k. (If > we used bzip2 instead of gzip, the above holds true up until > 500k files).
Like you said elsewhere, we don't actually invoke gzip ourselves, we simply pass the `-z' option to tar. Since tla already requires GNU tar, and GNU's tar supports the `--bzip2' option[1], perhaps someone interested in nicely compressing binary files would like to write a patch so tla supports using bzip2 compression? [1] Only concern is how long this option has been supported. Even Debian Woody supports this with the `-j' flag, and my man page mentions an older `-I' flag, so I'm led to believe this would be a relatively safe move. -- Matthew Dempsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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