Marcus Meissner wrote:
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:10:05AM +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Very true, but if the new parallel tools have not been sufficiently tested, we should not be making them default just yet. Then it would be better to go with Cristians option 1 and leave it to the user.
Well, gzip and bzip2 are older then their parallel counterparts which means they're by definition more tested (still, the "all sw has bugs" applies to them as well). However, while looking into pbzip2/pigz changelogs I couldn't find any recent mention about serious crash or dataloss, therefore I would consider these tools stable and tested enough to replace old bzip2/gzip in Factory.
Ah, yes - in Factory, no problem.
As I am the one worrying about security issues...
pigz - based on zlib, so I think it likely will have no new issues.
pbzip2 - seems to be written from scratch? So might have more security issues.
Judging by the homepage (http://compression.ca/pbzip2/) pbzip2 does use libbzip2. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (24.7°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org