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?). mhr