Re: compressor
On Wednesday 22,August,2012 10:50 PM, Jon Dowland wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 04:24:19PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> On Wed, 2012-08-22 at 16:15 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>>> xz: tar Jcf
$ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.14
no -J options.
On desktop it's tar (GNU tar) 1.26 can support the .tar.xz
Thanks,
>>
>> I'm using a distro that packages with xz.
>>
>> I'm sure that there never was a big difference between
>> "gz: tar zcf" and "bzip2: tar jcf" for the length of the files, but the
>> time for packing and unpacking does differ very much.
>
> Indeed, bz2 is very slow. But it can be much better at compressing:
>
> linux-3.6-rc2.tar.bz2 16-Aug-2012 22:01 78M
> linux-3.6-rc2.tar.gz 16-Aug-2012 22:01 99M
> linux-3.6-rc2.tar.xz 16-Aug-2012 22:01 65M
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