Craig Ringer wrote: > On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 11:17, Jeremy Bowers wrote: > >> I would point out a couple of other ideas, though you may be aware of >> them: Compressing all the files seperately, if they are small, may greatly >> reduce the final compression since similarities between the files can not >> be exploited. > > True; however, it's my understanding that compressing individual files > also means that in the case of damage to the archive it is possible to > recover the files after the damaged file. This cannot be guaranteed when > the archive is compressed as a single stream.
With gzip, you can forget the entire rest of the stream; with bzip2, there is a good chance that nothing more than one block (100-900k) is lost. regards, Reinhold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
