Re: What are best lzip compression options for large game tar archives?

[Hoël Bézier]

Am Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 05:52:34PM +0200 schrieb Antonio Diaz Diaz:
> You may use option -0, which compresses about as fast as gzip:
>
> http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html#gzip
>
> But for compression of large files on multiprocessor machines, plzip can be
> much faster than lzip at the cost of a slightly reduced compression ratio.
> Using option '-0' with 64 compression threads, plzip may be even faster (515
> MB/s) than pigz:
>
> http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/plzip_benchmark.html

Thanks for these advices. Browsing your website I encountered the tarlz 
software. Any particular reason you didn’t recommended it?

> So you may try a command like
>
>   tar -c foo | plzip -0vvo foo.tar.lz
>
> or with a recent version of GNU tar you can use
>
>   tar -cf foo.tar.lz -I 'plzip -0' foo

Would you happen to know precisely what “recent version” here means? As we try 
to support all kind of setups, we might not use this option, or do a version 
check before using it.

Thanks again
Hoël Bézier

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