Friday 22 April 2011

lrzip-0.603

Trying to polish off version 0.6x of lrzip to be nice and stable and working as planned, I've made a few more updates addressing a few issues that have come up, along with some outside help. Here's the short changelog:

lrzip now detects when output is being redirected without a filename and will automatically output to stdout. Apple builds, which had errors on compressing files larger than 2GB in size, were fixed. lrztar now properly supports -o, -O, and -S. The lrzip configuration file now supports encryption. lrzip will now warn if it's inappropriately passed a directory as an argument directly.

Probably the most fun part of this is the first feature upgrade to do with stdout, which I use regularly now since I store all my kernels and patches as .lrz, I can now do:

lrunzip patch-2.6.38.4.lrz | patch -p1

Also, graysky made some nice graphs and I feel obliged to put them up here:





Of course, with much larger files and more CPUs and RAM the discrepancy becomes much greater with lrzip but that doesn't change the fact this is a real world test.

So grab it here:
LRZIP ON FRESHMEAT

As an aside, debian unstable now has 0.602+ in its repo, and the upcoming elite release of slackware also has 0.602.

2 comments:

  1. v0.603 rocks! You might wanna add the following info for context around the benchmark I ran:

    Experiment is compressing the kernel-2.6.38 source (393 MB) to four formats:

    lrztar --> .lrz
    tar -zcf --> .gz
    tar -jcf -->.bz2
    tar -Jcf --> .xz

    I ran each compression 40 times via a script @ ondemand, then each compression an additional 40 times @ performance. (Love bash scripts)!

    lrzip v0.602
    tar v2.26
    xz v5.0.2
    gzip v1.4
    bzip2 v1.0.6

    -X3360 (Xeon version of Q9550 so quad core) @ 3.40 GHz (8 G RAM)
    -Kernel 2.6.38.2 + CK3 patchset on Arch Linux x86_64
    -Ran in runmode 3 with minimal daemons
    -Ran in /dev/shm (ramfs) so no access time issues

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  2. @ As an aside, debian unstable now has 0.602+ in its repo

    Awesome I am going to install this.

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