lzma

I think you are right that the standalone 'lzma' program (replacing the older lzmash) has a very basic data format.

freshmeat.net Releases 2009

I want to offer the choice of no compression or deflate compression when writing into the archive, but that each block should be marked with a prefix byte stating its compression algorithm so that a block can be decompressed no matter how it was compressed, as long as your copy of Ugarit knows the algorithm - I'll add lzma, and make it the default, as soon as I've written a wrapper to liblzma.

Snell-Pym » Ugarit interactive restore 2009

By Faré, Tue 13th Jan 2009 @ 11:51 am lzma makes total sense for long-term archiving, however, even more so than gzip or bzip2, it probably requires either having a very big block size how many megabytes? maybe 1MB from what squashfs experiments suggest.

Snell-Pym » Backup system progress update 2009

As I gather, lzma-utils-produced files lack magic identification bytes and a checksum, and if you believe forum archives, lzma-utils did not manage to come up with a suitable new format in more than two years.

freshmeat.net Releases 2010

What's New in This Release: [read full changelog] · Kernel 2.6.33 with Squashfs 3.4 + lzma

Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Linux 2010

I would be happy for lzip to replace it if lzip is better, but to do that it should include support for decompressing legacy. lzma files.

freshmeat.net Releases 2010

Pygrub improvements: Support for PV guests using GRUB2, Support for guest/boot on ext4 filesystem, Support for bzip2 - and lzma-compressed bzImage kernels

Cloud Computing: Citrix, VMware, and Microsoft Resources - RSS 2010

Other formats will be enabled once git-buildpackage handles creating gzip, bzip2, lzma and xz compressed tarballs with the smarter and autodetect the compression type.

Planet Debian 2010

Other formats will be enabled once git-buildpackage handles creating gzip, bzip2, lzma and xz compressed tarballs with the smarter and autodetect the compression type.

Planet Debian Guido Günther 2010

This program could be used much like gzip and bzip2, to create. lzma files.

Linux Gazette 2009