[PLUG] xz compression

[Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Gaurav Pant <gauravggs at gmail.com> wrote:
> Was just going through kernel.org and saw the default download was in
> format of tar.xz
>
> Seem to be better than gzip, any one used the same?
>

Large number of small files are better handled (fault tolerance) via
the lzma2 ; some old(er) benchmarks at
<http://stephane.lesimple.fr/blog/2010-07-20/lzop-vs-compress-vs-gzip-vs-bzip2-vs-lzma-vs-lzma2xz-benchmark-reloaded.html>

> Some info is available here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xz




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