Re: tar vs

[Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 03:11:22PM -0300, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
> On 3/17/07, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> >On 03/17/07 12:33, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
 
> Pardon me if I say something stupid, but I don't know why tar cannot just
> 1)run the .tar.rz file through rzip when decompressing, than extracting the
> necessary files from the .tar
> 2)when compressing, generate a .tar and then run it through rzip.
> 
> It would probably be slower than to use pipes, but would be good enough in
> many situations. Anyway, having the option wouldn't hurt, and I think it
> would be quite simple to add this to the tar code.
> 
> If, for instance, .deb's used rzip, they would probably be significantly
> smaller and I believe that the time saved in download would be much higher
> than the additional time spent in decompressing.

This would take up lots of disk space: the archive itself, the
uncompressed archive, then the unarchived files.  Not every computer
that debs are installed to has a plethora of free space.

Doug.