[CentOS] rsync and swapping

[MHR]

On Jan 30, 2008 11:03 AM, Milton Calnek <milton at calnek.com> wrote:
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> MHR wrote:
> > On Jan 30, 2008 8:26 AM, William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com> wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 17:14 +0100, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
> >>> Marcelo Roccasalva wrote:
> >>>> On Jan 30, 2008 11:24 AM, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote:
> >>>>> hi all,
> >>
> > As long as the majority of the files are not plain text - I have had
> > really bad results using bzip2 on text files - specifically, massive
> > file corruption.  I have had to go back to pre-bzipped archives to
> > rebuild these files - not a fun task.
> >
>
> Isn't the kernel source stored as a tared bzip file? If so, that's a lot
> of plain text.
>

# file /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, AMD
x86-64, version 1, stripped

Doesn't look that way - BUT, it is a self-extracting archive.  AFAIK
it is gzipped, and it is not tarred (why would it be - it's one
file?).

mhr