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Version 1.01
27 Apr 2003
Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer
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lzop is a file compressor which is very similar to
gzip. lzop uses the LZO data
compression library for compression services, and its main
advantages over gzip are much higher compression and decompression
speed (at the cost of some compression ratio).
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lzop is distributed under the terms of the GNU
General Public License (GPL).
Features
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lzop is the fastest compressor and decompressor around. See the
well-known Archive
Comparison Test for details.
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On modern systems, when making backups of terrabyte of data, lzop
is usually IO-bound and not CPU-bound, which means that
you can both decrease storage requirements and effectively reduce
backup time by quite an amount.
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lzop was designed with the following goals in mind:
- speed (both compression and decompression)
- reasonable drop-in compatibility to gzip
- portability
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General functionality and behaviour has been modelled very closely
after gzip. The main differences between lzop and gzip are:
- files compressed by lzop will have the suffix `.lzo'
- lzop does not delete the input file(s) by default.
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Precompiled binaries are available for
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Official lzop packages are available for
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