On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 04:09:37PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
That probably does explain the speed difference. Looks like we are
trading in disk space for better performance. Why was bzip2 compression
chosen in SUSE?
To squeeze a couple of packages more on the CDs.
How much disk space do you save on disk by using bzip2?
I think about 10%. But in retrospect it IMHO was a bad decission,
bzip2 is much to slow. I hope things will be better if we switch
to new compression schemes like 7zip.
Cheers,
Michael.
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