Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 13, 2005 09:33 PM
Yep, rzip is amazing when it comes to things like log files - the compression ratio is on a completely different scale to bzip2 even.
The biggest drawback imho is the fact that rzip cannot compress streams - you can't pipe to/from rzip, which means you can't use it for compressing directories using tar, unless you do it in 2 steps.
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Re:rzip
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 13, 2005 09:33 PMThe biggest drawback imho is the fact that rzip cannot compress streams - you can't pipe to/from rzip, which means you can't use it for compressing directories using tar, unless you do it in 2 steps.
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