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diff --git a/system/lrzip/README b/system/lrzip/README deleted file mode 100644 index eb8cf52055..0000000000 --- a/system/lrzip/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,26 +0,0 @@ -Long Range ZIP or Lzma RZIP - -This is a compression program optimised for large files. The larger the -file and the more memory you have, the better the compression advantage -this will provide, especially once the files are larger than 100MB. The -advantage can be chosen to be either size (much smaller than bzip2) or -speed (much faster than bzip2). - -The major disadvantages are: -1. The main lrzip application only works on single files so it requires the - lrztar wrapper to fake a complete archiver. -2. It requires a lot of memory to get the best performance out of, and is - not really usable (for compression) with less than 256MB. Decompression - requires less ram and works on smaller ram machines. -3. Only stdin in compression works well. The other combinations of - stdin/stdout work but in a very inefficient manner generating temporary - files on disk so this method of using lrzip is not recommended. -4. Files compressed on a 64 bit OS with a compression window greater than - 20 (2 GB) may not decompress on a 32 bit OS. - -See the file README.benchmarks for performance examples and what kind of -data lrzip is very good with. - -NOT BACKWARD COMPATIBLE WARNING -All files created with lrzip 0.50+ are not backward compatible with -versions prior to 0.50. v0.50 can read earlier generated files. |