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发表于 2005-11-10 22:48:40
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Large file compression: gzip < bzip2 < rzip
I haven't heared of rzip before either, but after someone mentioned it on the g4u list when the topic came to compression of filesystem images (i.e. large files), I had a look. Rzip claims to operates best at "large" files, so I tried to compress a 512MB qemu disk image, and here are the results:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 524288000 Mar 30 19:39 harddisk
-rw-r--r-- 1 feyrer wheel 241776704 Jul 20 04:14 harddisk.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 feyrer wheel 228779032 Jul 20 04:55 harddisk.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 feyrer wheel 196960165 Jul 20 04:39 harddisk.rz
Rzip (.rz) seems the clear winner here with a compression ratio of 2.66, compared to the 2.17 of "gzip -9" and 2.29 of "bzip2 -9".
Rzip is available in pkgsrc/archivers/rzip, check out the rzip homepage http://rzip.samba.org/ for more information! |
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