On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 05:15:29PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: Hello Eduard,
> > core:~# zcat devices.tar.gz |gzip -9|wc -c > > 40158 > > core:~# zcat devices.tar.gz |gzip -9|gzip -9|wc -c > > 24104 > Weird, weird. I think this is because of the relative small blocks of data gzip uses. With bzip2 it looks a little bit better. > > so it seems to me that tar don't use the -9 option > > > > the root-image is compresses with -9, so this could save space > > Yes, it is already compressed twice. Nothing or not much to get here. core:~# zcat devices.tar.gz |gzip|gzip -9|wc -c 27559 core:~# zcat devices.tar.gz |gzip -9|gzip -9|wc -c 24104 not much in terms of modern harddisks, but possibly more then 600 byte ;) I'll check this out, when I get the boot floppies to build (i think i have to upgrade to sid first and newer makedev). > > line 358: > > "tar zcf $devtarball dev" -> "tar c dev|gzip -9>$devtarball" > Err, no $devtarball is used for build only. The tarball on the rootfs > comes from debootstrap. Ok, but it is the same (line 69 in the debootstrap Makefile). Christian Leber -- "Omnis enim res, quae dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est." (Aurelius Augustinus) Translation: <http://gnuhh.org/work/fsf-europe/augustinus.html> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
