Re: gzip vs. bzip2 - beware of performance difference

[On 18 Dec, @00:41, Josh wrote in "[hdup-user] gzip vs. bzip2 - b ..."]
> A recent thread brought up afio, partially due to a performance concern by
> the original poster.  They referenced "[..].tar.bz2" as their file 
> extension...perhaps they'd have better luck with hdup w/ "compression =
> gzip" instead of "compression = bzip". 
> 
> Perhaps something to add in the FAQ and/or man page for hdup.conf.
> 
> As a side note, lzop, another compression option looks interesting and may
> warrant consideration for support in hdup.  An informal analysis (comparing
> to gzip/pkzip & bzip2) and links can be had here:

interesting. And this finally looks like a fun project for in my holiday :-)
(as 'afio' and --sparse aint going to happen)
lzop is also nicely supported in debian, so that makes it even more easy.

grtz Miek