Re: [Bug-tar] RE: PATCH: Lzo compression support

[Joerg Schilling]

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> hi !
>
> is it planned to add this lzo patch to tar ?
>
> if not, you maintainers should really consider doing so - lzo compression is 
> just great and lzop is quite portable, maybe even like gzip and bzip2
>
> here are some "real world" benchmarks for comparison:
>
>
> time tar cqf|czf|cjf  test.dat.lzo|.gz|.bz2 test.dat
>
> lzo:      real    0m27.507s   user    0m5.824s    sys     0m4.170s
> gzip:    real    0m47.059s   user    0m30.969s  sys     0m3.524s
> bzip:    real    4m36.405s   user    4m6.958s    sys     0m2.913s
>

star does already support lzo as well as 7z compression.

ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/alpha/

I know that star is only able to auto-extract compresed archives in case that 
it knows about a sufficient number of algorithms ;-)

Jörg

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