[svlug] Re: Mass copying

[Jeffrey Siegal]

Rick Moen wrote:
> (Obligatory observation about bzip2:  You'll get maybe 6% better
> compression, but compression will take twice as long and decompression
> four times as long.)

I'm not sure what exactly Rick means by "6% better" but recent kernel
source releases are about 20% smaller in bz2 as compared with gz.

-rw-r--r--   1 korg     korg     20499361 Feb 22 01:00
linux-2.4.2.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r--   1 korg     korg     25295341 Feb 22 01:00
linux-2.4.2.tar.gz

Of course, YMMV.