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Version 1.04
10 Aug 2017
Copyright (C) 1996-2017
Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer
News
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Happy 20th Anniversary Release! (Aug 2017)
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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 copyrighted OpenSource software distributed under the
terms of the
GNU General Public License (GPL).
Features
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lzop is one of 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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Download
- source code (386 kB, SHA256: 7e72b62a8a60aff5200a047eea0773a8fb205caf7acbe1774d95147f305a2f41)
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Official lzop packages are available for
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Precompiled binaries are available for
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