From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 18 02:59:42 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 897CBF13 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 02:59:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) Received: from nm12.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com (nm12.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com [77.238.189.65]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C560F7D9 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 02:59:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [77.238.189.51] by nm12.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 18 Jan 2013 02:59:40 -0000 Received: from [217.146.189.66] by tm4.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 18 Jan 2013 02:59:39 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp146.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 18 Jan 2013 02:59:39 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rocketmail.com; s=s1024; t=1358477979; bh=XEuqfLfs1v/QOrS+4xbH/hHUe4vPjK+RT6eDWlxZ5sU=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:Received:Content-Type:To:Subject:References:Date:MIME-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding:From:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:User-Agent; b=fjrwYKLawJ7tIMzNK7CoKj6KzIcFrRAodU7OWCqxDA5usVegVB+E918QvDbVkd2NB2WT99lE6jI1sraXYFEIESfIGKKuZLGZRhc3Dd8oLQQQD4+N3TPxAS5pnXOZGkbqQuEU0BfZ1SrXKSAaDWcVPMw/i/5XIT3pFfnoL+/BrFg= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 581111.14962.bm@smtp146.mail.ird.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: jt5EmuMVM1m4D1lV4DcAh31GDVfw1.m3OHOSLrvBnbD12h1 B86IEO0A4POQny.PE8rsZDFl_.p.8rt.6pi7mqflxOQ3U9XL3oivUxTp8t2Q .mHTDCnHpvLDvORjPHP4mCaIvMaxSN6CjF8gsprRnZ8DMeFORM3AOGitolIw KIG9NFEajYyExhMTyLg6AexZVoKGqlL2K5Jih3iP1p4cHoFh3MS0I_dupwSa 5RinJx8yT3TwKbErZvFWBS.W2mzft8gxAdWbIF83opOOozF4hl.9pn.jfI8Q 2KCIHj1uw9Jys2a0pvRYRe7D2_wconAgDfsKfGX2NhHxN6Fzz0zK2snVOORc hlNk2gM_LRUsxAzfg4NAhOh_YBsOG0E9VkoNzxaxeEGtv94_rfqm4n24WZc7 GALBN76152OwVySBHiB1pOCqOO7.agxrro8qRkJXYMFublwKJ44C9uGvi2yG JQidWByNwQk6eCy_GnH6NWWL3E7V4Km_EiGsEGKMSOijTc2AAiHqt0Nkfuzn TuvtO66FhL5.ESIpUAMOFSqUPkg4h X-Yahoo-SMTP: BeMCPs2swBABTJ3kAeEiC_hE0mz8jRexLddJfD8pI2j32fOacjBmXg-- Received: from freebsd (ralf.mardorf@92.224.209.164 with login) by smtp146.mail.ird.yahoo.com with SMTP; 17 Jan 2013 18:59:39 -0800 PST Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes To: "questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: tar & compression References: <50F8B3A3.9080909@a1poweruser.com> <1358477191.42966.YahooMailNeo@web133201.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 03:59:39 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Ralf Mardorf" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1358477191.42966.YahooMailNeo@web133201.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.61 (FreeBSD) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 02:59:42 -0000 On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 03:46:31 +0100, Georg Reilinger wrote: > If it doesn't necessarily have to be tar, then I'd recommend using 7zip: > > archivers/p7zip > > It has among the best compression ratios. It doesn't archive permissions. I guess the best compression ratio to pack and unpack time ratio is tar.gz if it's needed to archive the permissions too. http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/443063