compression tools

Gérard Milmeister gemi at bluewin.ch
Wed Jun 22 17:42:03 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 13:25 -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 12:54, sharif islam wrote:
> > Is there any compression mechanism that's rated for tar files as big
> > as, say, 100GB?
> 
> I don't believe anyone rates compression programs based the size of the
> file to be compressed.

For files of that size, it is probably useful for compress program to be
fast. Bzip2 for example would take ages to compress 100GB. Gzip with a
low compress degree (< 5) would be more useful.
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