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Subject: Re: 7-Zip / Bzip2
From: Matthew Dillon <dillon () apollo ! backplane ! com>
Date: 2008-05-06 0:51:15
Message-ID: 200805060047.m460lrhj094676 () apollo ! backplane ! com
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:Hi,
:
:Posted this to kernel@ by accident, please reply here instead :)
:
:I just wanted to know if there's any interest for the devs to add
:something like p7zip to the base install; even if it's a simple fork
:that only supports 7z. While 7zip is about as obnoxiously slow as
:bzip2, it usually gets much better compression.
:
:That's not why I'm suggesting it though - what really gets me is that
:bzip2 has no "list" option. Does that 10 gb bzip2 backup archive
:contain 100gb of data, or 200gb? Other than dumping the entire
:archive to /dev/null through wc, there's really no way to do it. Gzip
:will list files, but its compression ratio is awful.
:
:I imagine that other OSes are going to be watching Dragonfly very
:carefully in the next while as new the features (especially HAMMER)
:mature. Maybe adding 7z will get yet another bandwagon going and
:there will be support across the board :)
:
:Best Regards,
:Ben Cadieux
Well, I think not in base, at least not unless a lot of people
are using it. p7zip is readily available via the pkgsrc tree
and that's the most reasonable method of accessibility for
now.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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