On Sat, 22 Jan 2011, Keith Roberts wrote: > On Sat, 22 Jan 2011, S Mathias wrote: > >> To: centos at centos.org >> From: S Mathias <smathias1972 at yahoo.com> >> Subject: [CentOS] Let's talk about compression rates >> >> http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=MwDnhknf >> >> $ ls -Sl >> total 461252 >> -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 111709730 Jan 22 11:06 linux-2.6.37.zip >> -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 93174605 Jan 22 11:03 linux-2.6.37.tar.gz >> -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 73552510 Jan 22 11:10 linux-2.6.37.tar.bz2 >> -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 66333786 Jan 22 11:16 linux-2.6.37.7z >> -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 64035788 Jan 22 11:16 linux-2.6.37.tar.7z >> -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 63480808 Jan 22 11:20 linux-2.6.37.tar.xz >> $ >> >> I presume kernel.org knows this. Why doesn't people use e.g.: XZ? >> >> This is the same as in PDF's. DJVU files could be amazing >> too. They could compress [convert] a 400 MByte PDF to a 20 >> MByte DJVU. Amazing. Hi, Updated my list: $ du -sk * | sort -n 32160 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.xz (-9e) 32392 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.7z 32404 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.xz (-9) 33520 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lzma 33760 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.rar 38064 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.rz 39472 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.szip 39520 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.bz 39936 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.bz2 40000 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.bicom 40656 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.sit 47664 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lha 49940 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.zip 49968 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.dzip 50000 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.gz 51344 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.arj 57552 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lzo 57984 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.F 81136 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.Z 94544 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.zoo 101216 linux-2.6.16.17.tar.arc 228608 linux-2.6.16.17.tar $ du -sh * | sort -n 32M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.xz (both -9,-9e) 32M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.7z 33M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lzma 33M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.rar 37M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.rz 39M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.bicom 39M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.bz 39M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.bz2 39M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.szip 40M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.sit 47M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lha 49M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.zip 49M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.dzip 49M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.gz 50M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.arj 56M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lzo 57M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.F 79M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.Z 92M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.zoo 99M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.arc 223M linux-2.6.16.17.tar Justin.