Plzip 1.2-pre1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/plzip-1.2-pre1.tar.lz
The sha1sum is:
2fbca2f13ff185f1e9824b8fa34ffba79fb7197f plzip-1.2-pre1.tar.lz
Please, test it and report any bugs you find.
Plzip is a massively parallel (multi-threaded), lossless data compressor
based on the lzlib compression library, with a user interface similar to
the one of lzip, bzip2 or gzip.
Plzip can compress/decompress large files on multiprocessor machines
much faster than lzip, at the cost of a slightly reduced compression
ratio. Note that the number of usable threads is limited by file size,
so on files larger than a few GB plzip can use hundreds of processors,
but on files of only a few MB plzip is no faster than lzip.
Plzip uses the lzip file format; the files produced by plzip are fully
compatible with lzip-1.4 or newer, and can be rescued with lziprecover.
The homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/plzip.html
Changes in this version:
* Copying of file dates, permissions, and ownership now behaves like
"cp -p". (If the user ID or the group ID can't be duplicated, the file
permission bits S_ISUID and S_ISGID are cleared).
* Individual limits have been set on the number of packets produced
by each decompresor worker thread to limit the amount of memory used in
all cases.
* "plzip.texinfo" has been renamed to "plzip.texi".
Regards,
Antonio Diaz, plzip co-author and maintainer.
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