Articles tagged with "compression"

1. Evaluating Zstandard compression

   Recently I became aware of the zstd compression program. I wanted to see how it stacks up against gzip, bzip2 and xz.

   TL;DR

   Compression with zstd is blisteringly fast.

   But xz still yields the smallest files.

2. Should system backups be compressed?

   Every now and then I make backups of my FreeBSD system’s filesystems with the venerable dump program. This is …

3. XZ compression

   With the release of FreeBSD 8.1, the xz compression program has been imported into FreeBSD. I decided to do …