Of course the price you pay is a 25-50% performance hit(highly dependent on the CPU MHz). Personally I only bzip things that I don't often use, as the increased decompression speed of gzip is worth the small loss of compression capacity.
For instance, tar Ixvf linux-kernel-source.tar.bz2 takes significantly longer (2-3x) than tar zxvf linux-kernel-source.tar.gz on my dual PPro 200 machine. Sean Onno wrote: > At 09:22 PM 10/29/99 +0200, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > >What kind of fiels are those that end with ".tar.bz2"? How are they > >decompressed? > > The program is called bzip2, it compresses between 10-15% > then gzip. > > To get the .tar file: bzip2 -d <file> > To leave the file compressed: bzcat <file> | tar -x > > Regards, > > Onno > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
