lossless data (de)compression algorithms for red hat

zivsh · 05-30-2006, 01:35 AM

Hi all

does anyone know (or has a reference) about which of these lossless data compression algorithms are the "best" on Red Hat?

7ZIP
ACE 2.0
RAR
stuffIt
ZIP
CAB 1.3
TAR+BZIP2

The main need is for plain text files with size about 0.5 GB (max).

On top of being lossless (on decompression), the performance should be good on: compression ratio, time and resource usage.

J_K9 · 05-30-2006, 02:08 AM

TAR + BZip2 is *probably* the best. I'd suggest trying them all and comparing the results

Let us know!

Cheers,

-jk