.xz used in Fedora 12 Alpha
I was just reading the Fedora 12 Alpha release notes and was interested to see that they have switched all the software packages in Fedora from Gzip to the more efficient XZ (LZMA) compression method.
These compression method is usually used in the kernel, so I just had to try it on my Fedora 11 workstation…. guess I’m a convert now…. there is no point in wasting space when there is space to save.
[root@greyf11 log]# ll -h messages_copy
-rw------- 1 root root 495K 2009-08-20 13:40 messages_copy
[root@greyf11 log]# xz -zv messages_copy
messages_copy (1/1)
100.0 % 27.8 KiB / 494.2 KiB = 0.056
[root@greyf11 log]# ll -h messages_copy.xz
-rw------- 1 root root 28K 2009-08-20 13:40 messages_copy.xz
[root@greyf11 log]# xz -dv messages_copy.xz
messages_copy.xz (1/1)
100.0 % 27.8 KiB / 494.2 KiB = 0.056
/Roger Sinel
