[CentOS] rsync and swapping

Wed Jan 30 19:03:47 UTC 2008
Milton Calnek <milton at calnek.com>


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.

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Milton Calnek BSc, A/Slt(Ret.)
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