<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div>The only reservation I have is inexperience with lbzip2, and at least one comparison I saw cited high memory requirements and out of memory crashes with lbzip2. I will have to find the page when I'm back at a computer, and it may very well have been addressed by now.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That applies to anything, until you use it for the first time ;)</div><div><br></div><div>But yes, if it has issues like these you describe, we should test it. I would bet though that if it did have such problems, they would be fixed pretty sharpish ...</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div><br></div><div>Not being updated in a while is not a bad sign for a tool you just want to work.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Apologies, I wasn’t intending to imply it was better maintained than pbzip2, just to seems to have good support of its own upstream. The fact Fedora plans to switch to it is also I think a good sign.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div><br></div><div>The unzipping anything in parallel, however, is a distinct advantage, and makes it worth examining.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>I think, if true, it would be a killer point, as it would mean we would benefit automatically, with existing archives. </div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div><br></div><div> - Eric</div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>