bzip2 vs gzip

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Tony" == Tony Laszlo <laszlo@example.com> writes:

    Tony> Is Bzip2 less resilient than gzip?

It's certainly newer.  It might be less reliable.

So far I have never seen a corrupt .gz or .bz2 that couldn't be
explained by pilot error (appending non-compressed text to a
compressed file, for example) or an overfull file system.  Doesn't
mean it couldn't happen, though.

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