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[Joachim Berdal Haga <jobh@xxxxxxxxx>]

It's the "J" flag to tar, if I remember correctly. Slow but very good
compression, fast decompression.

I saw one spectacular case where xz was something like 98% better than gz,
that was a huge result file from a dolfin simulation. But usually just a
bit better than bz2.
Den 29. mai 2012 19.31 skrev "Harish Narayanan" <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx>
følgende:

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>
> On 5/29/12 5:22 PM, noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > revno: 723
> > committer: Johannes Ring <johannr@xxxxxxxxx>
> > branch nick: trunk
> > timestamp: Tue 2012-05-29 15:22:29 +0200
> > message:
> >   Add support for .tar.xz format.
>
> I don't think I've seen this format before!
>
> Harish
>
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