Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:28:53 +0100 From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: emulate an end-of-media Message-ID: <20080226202853.GA859@britannica.bec.de> In-Reply-To: <op.t65acy13724k7f@martin> References: <op.t63j2veq724k7f@martin> <20080225154455.4822e72a@bhuda.mired.org> <47C33384.6040701@dial.pipex.com> <200802252243.m1PMhTeq016201@fire.js.berklix.net> <47C3A228.7090703@freebsd.org> <op.t65acy13724k7f@martin>
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:44:48PM +0100, Martin Laabs wrote: > I also made a comparison between gzip and bzip2 regarding > the compression ratio on a dump of my home directory (3.2GB) > bzip2 took about 74min to compress, gzip only 11minutes. And > in terms of compression ratio bzip2 was only 3% better than > gzip. That's not a realistic test case. bzip2 normally takes trice the time and compresses 10% better. I can't comment on compress. Joerg
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