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Message-ID: <4B6E4793.3010201@teksavvy.com>
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:54:43 -0500
From: Mark Lord <kernel@...savvy.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.33-rc7
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Do people really care about the old-fashioned tar.gz and patch.gz files?
> I've always uploaded the tar-files and patches compressed with gzip,
> because that's the "traditional" way, and then we have a script that also
> re-compresses things as 'bz2' because it compresses better and many people
> are bandwidth-limited and much prefer the better compression.
..
I prefer the .gz files, despite limited bandwidth here.
My older, slower CPUs cope with them better.
But .bz2-only would be fine as well.
I just wish the GNU tar folk had the sense to combine -z and -j
into a single flag.
-ml
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