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 > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5034f30e.6080...@gmail.com
