7z compression

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Darius
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7z compression

Post by Darius »

Hi,
I was wondering if you had considered adding support for 7z compressed images?
I have a (mostly empty) SD card which is 70MB when gzip'd but only 14MB when 7zip'd.

Thanks.
Alex
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Re: 7z compression

Post by Alex »

Yes, I thought about that. it might be available in future versions.
Darius
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Re: 7z compression

Post by Darius »

7z also handles large files properly :)
Jay
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Re: 7z compression

Post by Jay »

For a project, which requires 64/128Gb USB keys, I do not compress with USBIT but I instead use a separate xz compressor to create an "img.xz" file afterward.

Then, I am now wondering if there is a chance USBIT would natively support more compressors in the future.
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