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Re: Compressing hippos really fast


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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
| On Mar  4 16:23, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
|> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
|>> does anybody know about a compression tool which is above all
|>> capable of compressing really fast?
|> I know that this is very "un-Linuxy", but if you don't really
|> need tar, you might consider zip.
|
| Urgh.  I'm not sure that's really an option.  I never tried to use
| zip on a terabyte of data...
|
|
| Corinna
|
I don't think that would work.  I think the linux version is based on
Info-Zip and that one was limited to 2GB archive size.

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