Re: [kernel.org mirrors] Deprecating .gz format on kernel.org

[H. Peter Anvin]

Ryan Finnie wrote:
> 
> When I started mirroring kernel.org, I was under the assumption that
> most of the world was still using .gz for the most part, and we are
> under a space constraint that prevents us from having both formats (this
> will change once we get the new server for OSS mirrors up and running). 
> However, Matt's stats are pretty interesting.  So even though we
> probably won't be depricating .gz right now, I've switched over my
> mirror from .gz to .bz2.  Peter, mark me (RN-RNO) down as converted.
> 
> Now, if only GNU tar would read .gz OR .bz2 format when specifying -z
> (my fingers automatically type "tar zxvf", and it will take a long time
> to change that.  What is bz2?  j?  That's too hard to remember.)
 >

Yes, for decode it should be able to spawn the right program by looking 
at the magic number.  For encode, well, of course it needs to know.  But 
yes, it's "j".

	-hpa