From owner-freebsd-libh Mon Oct 30 17:58:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-libh@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E69A637B4CF; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 17:58:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from newsguy.com (p23-dn03kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.232.224.152]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id KAA05605; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:58:25 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <39FE26E5.BDCC6CCD@newsguy.com> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:56:53 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kientzle@acm.org Cc: Alexander Langer , libh@FreeBSD.ORG, "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: BOF at BSDCon: FreeBSD Installer, Packages System 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-libh@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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