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Re: xz-compressed tarballs?
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Hans Aberg |
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Re: xz-compressed tarballs? |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:08:56 +0200 |
On 11 Jul 2011, at 02:05, Paul Eggert wrote:
> I agree with Joel that we should keep the gzip version around
> for a while, at least until the xz folks get around to
> writing an Internet RFC for the format and so forth.
>
> It's not just a matter of distribution; it's also
> a matter of archiving. 100 years from now, I expect
> there will still be gzip readers, but I'm not as sure there
> will be xz-as-of-2011 readers.
If Moore's Law holds up for hard drives, they will have a yottabyte of storage,
and if Nielsen's Law for networks holds up, the bandwidth will be a
zettabyte/second.
Hans