Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:56:53 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: kientzle@acm.org Cc: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>, libh@FreeBSD.ORG, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: BOF at BSDCon: FreeBSD Installer, Packages System Message-ID: <39FE26E5.BDCC6CCD@newsguy.com> References: <39DCC860.B04F7D50@acm.org> <20001006155542.A29218@cichlids.cichlids.com> <39F3CDD7.15B889E7@acm.org> <20001023190412.B507@cichlids.cichlids.com> <39F47E98.4BB647AA@acm.org> <20001023202244.B10374@cichlids.cichlids.com> <39F48F4A.38D458C2@acm.org> <39FCF244.5A8C8E59@newsguy.com> <39FDC12E.304B0011@acm.org> <39FDE2A0.C2CEF041@acm.org>
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Tim Kientzle wrote: > > I just did a few quick tests against my FreeBSD 3.3 > system to see how much you lose by switching from > tar.gz to ZIP. I simply archived a couple of directories > and compared the sizes: > > Directory tar.gz ZIP > /usr/ports 7,601,675 15,008,530 > /usr/src 50,896,742 62,536,891 > /usr/bin 3,892,391 6,192,116 > /usr/share/man 28,449,979 22,518,970 (!) I assume you used maximum compression for tar.gz. Did you use maximum compression for ZIP? -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@world.wide.bsdconspiracy.net He has been convicted of criminal possession of a clue with intent to distribute. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-libh" in the body of the message
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