A couple weeks ago I stumbled over a mention that "lzma was really good with large files". Well, I archive several gigabytes of logfiles every day, compressed with gzip. I deliberately chose gzip over bzip2 as it was faster decompressing, which is important when you trawling through the archives looking for something or other. I did a couple of small tests with lzma, and then decided to run a test on about 200G of data collected during Jan-Feb-Mar. I'm still not done with the data from March, but sofar lzma compresses twice as much as gzip, i.e. if gzip compresses to 10% of original size, lzma does 5%. Granted, compression IS awfully slow, but decompression is faster than gzip, so for archival and analysis purposes lzma compression is near perfect. But I'm sure you all knew that. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (17.6°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org