Brion Vibber wrote:
The new dumps are compressed with gzip as it's faster than bzip2 (though
bzip2 compresses better).
You might already be aware of this, but for the purposes of preventing
misinformation from spreading, please allow me to point out that bzip2
does *not* generally compress better -- it only compresses
natural-language text and source code better, but not, for example, the
SQL dump of the links table, which contains mostly numbers.
Timwi