Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 15:13:56 -0800 (PST) From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org> To: jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com (Jordan Hubbard) Cc: mi@aldan.algebra.com, obrien@FreeBSD.org, sheldonh@uunet.co.za, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bzip2 (was cvs commit: ...) Message-ID: <200102062313.f16NDus45358@iguana.aciri.org> In-Reply-To: <13548.981500989@winston.osd.bsdi.com> from Jordan Hubbard at "Feb 6, 2001 3: 9:49 pm"
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> > Bzip2 has a more liberal license and is a better (more efficient > > usually) compressor. It is also being actively maintained. Some Linux > > distros come with man-pages bzip2-ed instead of gzip-ed too. IMHO, we > > should use it. my understanding is that bzip* is _way_ slower than gzip due to the algorithm used. Unless we really care the 5-10% savings in size, i'd rather _not_ use it, for portability and backward compatibility reasons. cheers luigi > Does bzip offer any backwards compatability with gzip, e.g. if we > bundled bzip in /usr/bin instead of gzip, would a hardlink to bzip > under the name "gzip" still DTRT with .gz files? > > - Jordan > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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