gzip works fine with infinite streams of data since it only keeps track of local information about the data that it is compressing. So have no worries about using it on large files.
Cheers,
Ben
tar vs. cpio
- (deSitter)
- (43)
- Sept. 23, 2004, 09:34:54 AM EDT
I'd use tar.
- (static)
- (2)
- Sept. 23, 2004, 10:25:44 AM EDT
Re: I'd use tar.
- (deSitter)
- (1)
- Sept. 23, 2004, 10:44:56 AM EDT
I've done it on Linux.,
- (pwhysall)
- Sept. 23, 2004, 10:46:57 AM EDT
dd
- (pwhysall)
- Sept. 23, 2004, 10:44:18 AM EDT
What I'd do.
- (folkert)
- (2)
- Sept. 23, 2004, 10:48:01 AM EDT
Re: What I'd do.
- (deSitter)
- (1)
- Sept. 23, 2004, 10:50:13 AM EDT
Nope
- (ben_tilly)
- Sept. 23, 2004, 11:05:45 AM EDT
What I'd be inclined to do
- (ben_tilly)
- (35)
- Sept. 23, 2004, 11:01:05 AM EDT
What he said.
-NT
- (static)
- Sept. 23, 2004, 10:09:07 PM EDT
Re: What I'd be inclined to do
- (deSitter)
- (33)
- Sept. 24, 2004, 04:19:06 AM EDT
The CPU overhead is likely less than the network overhead.
- (pwhysall)
- (30)
- Sept. 24, 2004, 07:04:00 AM EDT
Especially text...
-NT
- (Another Scott)
- (4)
- Sept. 24, 2004, 10:31:45 AM EDT
Not a given
- (deSitter)
- (3)
- Sept. 24, 2004, 10:46:03 AM EDT
Even PKZip on a 286 running DOS could fly through text files
- (Another Scott)
- (1)
- Sept. 24, 2004, 11:04:49 AM EDT
Re: Even PKZip on a 286 running DOS could fly
- (deSitter)
- Sept. 24, 2004, 11:08:01 AM EDT
Doesn't matter
- (ben_tilly)
- Sept. 24, 2004, 11:07:23 AM EDT
In fact...
- (ben_tilly)
- (1)
- Sept. 24, 2004, 11:22:34 AM EDT
Re: In fact...
- (deSitter)
- Sept. 24, 2004, 11:47:50 AM EDT
Your pipe is too small then
- (broomberg)
- (22)
- Sept. 24, 2004, 05:46:13 PM EDT
Try different compression quality?
- (ben_tilly)
- (18)
- Sept. 24, 2004, 06:54:01 PM EDT
Try? We do not try. We do.
- (broomberg)
- (17)
- Sept. 25, 2004, 08:13:15 PM EDT
An advantage of gzip is that it's easy to detect errors.
- (Another Scott)
- (1)
- Sept. 25, 2004, 08:25:35 PM EDT
If you MUST...
- (broomberg)
- Sept. 25, 2004, 08:44:07 PM EDT
Thanks for the figures
- (ben_tilly)
- Sept. 26, 2004, 01:56:09 AM EDT
Thanks, and questions.
- (pwhysall)
- Sept. 26, 2004, 02:00:08 AM EDT
lzop vs. gzip
- (pwhysall)
- (12)
- Sept. 26, 2004, 02:34:36 AM EDT
Interesting
- (broomberg)
- (11)
- Sept. 26, 2004, 07:31:51 AM EDT
Seeing you tease Peter makes me aware that...
- (ben_tilly)
- (1)
- Sept. 27, 2004, 11:58:22 AM EDT
In person
- (broomberg)
- Sept. 27, 2004, 12:41:09 PM EDT
What are happening to the 450s?
- (folkert)
- (3)
- Sept. 27, 2004, 12:28:46 PM EDT
Dunno. Ask Dave.
- (broomberg)
- (2)
- Sept. 27, 2004, 12:39:33 PM EDT
I'm sorry Dave, but Dave's friend Dave says Dave's at...
- (ben_tilly)
- Sept. 27, 2004, 01:05:25 PM EDT
Thanks.
-NT
- (folkert)
- Sept. 28, 2004, 02:19:24 PM EDT
Ah, but in MY house...
- (pwhysall)
- (4)
- Sept. 28, 2004, 03:32:35 AM EDT
Not spam
- (broomberg)
- (3)
- Sept. 28, 2004, 07:33:49 PM EDT
Still spam; just spam on dead trees.
- (CRConrad)
- (2)
- Sept. 29, 2004, 01:43:02 AM EDT
"admirable or honourable" - Yup
- (broomberg)
- (1)
- Sept. 29, 2004, 08:19:15 AM EDT
The fulfillment (sic) third, maybe. The rest? Nope.
- (CRConrad)
- Sept. 29, 2004, 01:54:13 PM EDT
That was my intuitive suspicion
-NT
- (deSitter)
- (2)
- Sept. 25, 2004, 06:22:42 PM EDT
And as usual
- (broomberg)
- (1)
- Sept. 25, 2004, 08:15:23 PM EDT
Well sure
- (deSitter)
- Sept. 26, 2004, 12:52:31 PM EDT
Beware spaces in filenames
- (Arkadiy)
- (1)
- Sept. 24, 2004, 01:37:14 PM EDT
Already checked :)
-NT
- (deSitter)
- Sept. 24, 2004, 03:11:47 PM EDT