Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 00:17:34 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> Cc: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Matthew Jacob <mjacob@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r250565 - head/etc Message-ID: <20130513001733.GA32639@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1305130056280.70132@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <201305121523.r4CFNxBR055568@svn.freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1305121952120.44610@woozle.rinet.ru> <518FFA4B.9080505@freebsd.org> <20130512205146.GZ91136@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1305130056280.70132@woozle.rinet.ru>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 01:14:35AM +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > method realtm arsize > ==================== > gzip 45s 183M > bzip2 5m32s 115M > xz 11m43s 112M > > I would tend to use xz for distributives (including freebsd-updates or > portsnap), where compression process is quite rare, but download size is > significant -- but not for logs, backups, or other similar once-packed > data... +1. xz is not part of all our releases, yet people still might be running 6.x for example, and they certainly won't be happy to keep two versions of their newsyslog.conf (otherwise identical) -- just another reason why this change is moot at least. Otherwise I totally agree with Dmitry that xz is not for frequent compressions of small files when it clearly loses to bzip2. /danfe _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20130513001733.GA32639>