Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Free space wasting when handling binary files

[John Arbash Meinel]

Adrian Irving-Beer wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 06:15:59PM -0600, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
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> > It does depend on the size of the file versus the size of the
> > compression window:
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> Cool, I didn't know that.  The gzip manpage does not mention 'window'
> issues.  Is there a way to increase the gzip window, perhaps with -9?
> Or a way for arch to request a larger window (to a reasonable extent)
> based on the size of the data?
Well, bzip2's window is directly related to the -# flag.
-1 = 100k
-9 = 900k

I think with gzip it is mostly fixed, the - flag just changes how hard
it looks. But I don't think we are directly invoking gzip to change the
level.

John
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