On Jan 30, 2008 11:03 AM, Milton Calnek milton@calnek.com wrote:
MHR wrote:
On Jan 30, 2008 8:26 AM, William L. Maltby CentOS4Bill@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@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