ckolivas/lrzip
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Long Range Zip
9 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 2 stories, 7 comments · first 2017-10-23 · latest 2024-05-21
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…xz in macOS but I’m switching to lrzip [1] for better compression size and especially speed [1] https://github.com/ckolivas/lrzip
comment by alin23 · 2024-05-21 · in Gifski: Optimized GIF Encoder -
lrzip Long Range ZIP or LZMA RZIP https://github.com/ckolivas/lrzip "A compression utility that excels at compressing large files (usually > 10-50 MB). Larger files and/or more free RAM means that the utility will be able to more…
comment by trillic · 2022-11-18 · in How to get your backup to half of its size – ZSTD support -
…I could just do that the traditional way if I so wished. [1]: https://github.com/Phantop/srep [2]: https://github.com/ckolivas/lrzip [3]: https://github.com/conor42/fast-lzma2 [4]: https://github.com/jinfeihan57/p7zip [5]:…
comment by phantop · 2022-02-25 · in Don't Use RAR -
…I know of for that is something like lrzip still, but even then it's probably not state of the art. https://github.com/ckolivas/lrzip It'll also take a hell of a long time to do the compression and decompression. It'd probably be better to…
comment by simcop2387 · 2021-04-25 · in Ask HN: How would you store 10PB of data for your startup today? -
There's also lrzip for large files: https://github.com/ckolivas/lrzip
comment by rzzzt · 2021-01-03 · in Encrypted Backup Shootout -
I always find [lrzip]( https://github.com/ckolivas/lrzip ) is under appreciated when it comes to compression discussions; it doesn't suit all circumstances, but it works really well in the ones it does (we're using it with the nocompress…
comment by bruce_one · 2018-11-26 · in Zstandard – Fast real-time compression algorithm -
…in the wild so far but for certain files it can increase the compression ratio quite a bit. [1] https://github.com/ckolivas/lrzip # 151M linux-4.14-rc6.tar.gz # GZIP decompression ~$ time gzip -dk linux-4.14-rc6.tar.gz real 0m4.518s user…
comment by vmp · 2017-10-23 · in An ode to pack: gzip’s forgotten decompressor