Re: Individual compression vs. tar.gz (was: Bug#4834: magicfilter's examples should be archived individually)
On Sun, Feb 08, 1998 at 09:45:16PM +0100, David Frey wrote:
> The factor of 2 had to be expected, but I'm still surprised by the big
> difference (the block size of my ext2fs-Partition is 1KB).
All the files are virtually identical: tar them up together and gzip can
take advantage of that to get really good compression. If you have to
compress them individually it can't.
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