MHR wrote: > On Jan 30, 2008 11:03 AM, Milton Calnek <milton at calnek.com> wrote: >> >> 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?). > Not that file... I meant linux-major.minor.blah.blah.tar.gz say from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6 And, my mistake... it's gzip'd. -- Milton Calnek BSc, A/Slt(Ret.) milton at calnek.com 306-717-8737 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.