Formaline: Use bzip2 or xz if available to compress thorn source code

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1. 

   Ian Hinder

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   This would be very useful. I spend a lot of time syncing formaline tarballs. It would also be useful for them to be hardlinked between restarts of a simulation, but that is another ticket...

   • 2011-08-26T12:47:21+00:00
2. 

   Erik Schnetter reporter

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   Tried this (xz and bzip2). The space savings are minimal, less than 1%. Don't know what is wrong. Maybe the tarballs are too small, maybe ASCII is already handled very well by gzip.

   • 2011-08-26T20:48:40+00:00
3. 

   Erik Schnetter reporter

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   Here are the statistics for a fairly large source tree:

   $ du -sk output_source.* 59108 output_source.gz 59444 output_source.bz2 59020 output_source.xz

   This used -9 for all compressors.

   • 2011-08-26T20:51:26+00:00
4. 

   Erik Schnetter reporter

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   I am closing this ticket since the idea didn't work out.

   • 2011-09-18T14:25:59+00:00
5. 

   Roland Haas

   • changed status to closed
   • edited description

   • 2019-02-21T20:14:47+00:00
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