On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 12:59:15PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > There is some wasted download especially with bzip2s > chunkyness but overall that should be minimal. Unfortunately not; 'bzip2 -9' processes stuff in data blocks of 900kB (uncompressed); since the ratio is ~ 4.4 , you would always need to download ~ 200kB of data to get the first block a. -- Andrea Mennucc