Re: [arch-general] stability of pbzip2 ?

2009-11-19 Thread Thomas Bächler
Ian-Xue Li schrieb: Hi, I'm quote fond of pbzip2's ability to multitask the compression, which comes really handy when backuping large archives of server files. But just heard from my friend: pbzip2 has stability issues, sometimes leads to corruption of archive, and hence unable to recover

Re: [arch-general] stability of pbzip2 ?

2009-11-19 Thread Ray Kohler
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:34 AM, Thomas Bächler tho...@archlinux.org wrote: Ian-Xue Li schrieb: Hi, I'm quote fond of pbzip2's ability to multitask the compression, which comes really handy when backuping large archives of server files. But just heard from my friend: pbzip2 has stability

Re: [arch-general] stability of pbzip2 ?

2009-11-19 Thread Michael Schaefer
Hi, I use it frequently to pack/unpack large files/folders (for instance different types of vmware images). the files/folders usually consume between 5-15GB (uncompressed). These files are then even more frequently unpacked by various different user, which (so far) never encountered any problems.

[arch-general] stability of pbzip2 ?

2009-11-18 Thread Ian-Xue Li
Hi, I'm quote fond of pbzip2's ability to multitask the compression, which comes really handy when backuping large archives of server files. But just heard from my friend: pbzip2 has stability issues, sometimes leads to corruption of archive, and hence unable to recover them. I wonder if this