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

[Adrian Irving-Beer]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 10:55:03AM -0600, Matthew Dempsky wrote:

> > The point would be the ability to specify compression levels and
> > other bzip2/gzip options, and with drop-in support for other
> > compression formulas for which there is no GNU tar option.
>
> `tar -j' will already uses the highest bzip2 compression level.
> Also, tar has the `--use-compress-program PROG' option for
> specifying alternative compression options if we really want to
> support that.  (I don't know how new a feature the latter is
> though.)

And if you want to specify different options for gzip?  Or a lower
compression level for bzip2 based on the size of the files in
question?  Or a compression program that doesn't use -d?

I wasn't saying we *should* do that right now, merely that it isn't
hard to run them separately.  Despite the current dependency on GNU
tar, we are not limited to using only the compression methods it
supports, nor in the exact same way it does, nor waiting until
everyone's tar has support for some new program, nor adding another
dependency on the GNU version in the first place.  That's all.

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