Simple test, see below. It would appear that the compressors sync rapidly despite an insertion. (The last five bytes differ; presumably a checksum.)
This bug report should therefore be closed. Perhaps the gzip invocation used in constructing the kernel or ramdisk images that engendered this report did not actually have this switch enabled? -- Barak A. Pearlmutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hamilton Institute & Dept Comp Sci, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland http://www-bcl.cs.nuim.ie/~barak/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- $ tar -cf Humor.tar -C ~/usr Humor $ (echo -n x ; cat Humor.tar) > Humor.tarx $ gzip < Humor.tar > Humor.tar.gz $ gzip < Humor.tarx > Humor.tarx.gz $ gzip --rsyncable < Humor.tar > Humor.tar.gzr $ gzip --rsyncable < Humor.tarx > Humor.tarx.gzr $ ls -l Humor.tar* -rw-rw-r-- 1 barak barak 5806080 Dec 27 04:03 Humor.tar -rw-rw-r-- 1 barak barak 5806081 Dec 27 04:04 Humor.tarx -rw-rw-r-- 1 barak barak 2510805 Dec 27 04:04 Humor.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 barak barak 2510806 Dec 27 04:05 Humor.tarx.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 barak barak 2536190 Dec 27 04:04 Humor.tar.gzr -rw-rw-r-- 1 barak barak 2536186 Dec 27 04:05 Humor.tarx.gzr $ cmp --verbose --ignore-initial=0:1 Humor.tar{,x} | wc -l 0 $ cmp --ignore-initial=1000805:1000806 Humor.tar{,x}.gz Humor.tar.gz Humor.tarx.gz differ: char 1, line 1 $ cmp --verbose --ignore-initial=0:1 Humor.tar{,x}.gz | wc -l 2500230 $ cmp --ignore-initial=4190:4186 Humor.tar{,x}.gzr Humor.tar.gzr Humor.tarx.gzr differ: char 2531993, line 9702 $ cmp --verbose --ignore-initial=4:0 Humor.tar{,x}.gzr | wc -l 4130 $ cmp --verbose --ignore-initial=4:0 Humor.tar{,x}.gzr | tail 4144 4 20 4145 0 163 4146 0 143 4147 377 362 4148 377 57 2536179 170 313 2536180 244 207 2536181 320 342 2536182 45 40 2536183 0 1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
