LZOP is a command-line compression program - an alternative to compress, zip, gzip, bzip2, lzma....
Unfortunately it is still much less popular than the mentioned programs. I made this site available, because I think it should become generally accepted besides the popular ones and also being distributed with all well known operating systems.
Regarding compression/decompression-SPEED this program definitely kicks ass !
If you need a utility for compressing large amounts of data in reasonable time, you will have a hard time to find one which is better and as portable !!!
Try lzop - you will get impressed !
You still don`t trust me ?
Just take a look at some nice article from Linux Journal called "Compression Tools Compared"
Here`s some quotationi from that article:
"lzop often is the fastest tool. It finishes about three times faster than gzip but still compresses data almost as much. It finishes about a hundred times faster than lzma and 7za. Furthermore, lzop occasionally decompresses data even faster than simply copying it! Use lzop on the command line as a filter with the backup tool named tar:
$ tar c a/dir | lzop - > backup.tar.lzo
Perhaps this site will add some popularity for LZOP - so give it a try :)
regards
Roland K.
Systems Engineer
NEWS:
Cologne, 2008-12-30
LZOP 1.02rc1 exists since 2005-07-25 now. That`s more than 3 years. On www.lzop.org, the author states that there has not been any problem report. I don`t also know of any problems. Since lzop project seems pretty dead and the author appears a little bit uncommunicative about lzop to me, i`m provocatively doing a fork and hereby i`m releasing lzop-1.02-stable. Besides the version number, there is no difference between 1.02rc1 and 1.02. You can download the stable version here
Links
Binary downloads (@this site - binary versions of ordinary and smp-enhanced lzop)
LZOP Utility (Author site)
LZO Compression Algorithm (Author site)
Multiprocessor(SMP)-Patches (Adds additional speed)
Datacompression.info
Compression Tools Compared - Linux Journal article
Binary packages for SuSE Linux and source RPM package
Available via OpenSUSE build service, too
List of software using LZOP or incorporating LZO library
01 Ultr@VNC
02 The HT Editor
03 YACAS - Yet Another Computer Algebra System
04 OpenVPN
05 tinc - a Virtual Private Network daemon
06 WSF1 - Whelchel Sound Format
07 DXPC - The Differential X Protocol Compressor
08 FAST Real-time compression for MySQL
09 Total Commander - file manager for Windows (lzop plugin)
10 VTun - Virtual Tunnels over TCP/IP networks
11 Partition Image - for LINUX
12 Simple IPX Bridge
13 Chilkat RT Compress COM component
14 flashcmp (QNX utility)
15 Mondo, the premier GPL'd disaster recovery suite
16 File-Roller - an archive manager for GNOMEi
17 Transcode - Linux Video Stream Processing Tool
18 Mplayer - the movie player for LINUX
19 Compressed Caching - Linux Virtual Memory
20 bin2lzo2c
21 reiser4 Filesystem
22 FuseCompress - FUSE based Filesystem with transparent compression
23 LZOlayer - another FUSE based Filesystem with transparent compression
24 compFUSEd - a 3rd FUSE based Filesystem with transparent compression
25 The SAMHAIN file integrity / intrusion detection system
26 XBMC - The Xbox Media Center
27 grub.org - Distributed Internet Crawler
28 ComprLib - Data Manipulation Library
29 hping - TCP/IP packet assembler/analyzer
30 Dump - Dump/Restore ext2/ext3 filesystem backup
31 distcc - a fast, free distributed C/C++ compiler
32 Icecream - similar to distcc, from the KDE project
33 ZFS-FUSE - ZFS Linux port. lzo compression is not part of that, but available as a separate patch.I wonder when SUN will find this being a better replacement for lzjb
34 LRZIP - Con Kolivas` Long Range ZIP or Lzma RZIP
35 Virtual Tape Libraries - this paper is telling that LZO is used in a variety of VTL solutions and how it compares to hardware accelerated compression
36 Atempo Time Navigator - backup software
37 Universal Extractor - lzo decompression only
38 GnuTLS - The GNU Transport Layer Security Library
39 LibVNCServer/LibVNCClient - Library for easy creation of VNC server/client applications
40 EXEPAK executable file compressor for Linux
41 TinyLib - emulation layer for game development. Subset of GLUT/OpenGL,OpenAL, bsd sockets and C standard library
42 Crystal Space 3D SDK - Crystal Space is an Open Source 3D SDK for Unix, Windows, MacOS/X.
43 Linux Kernel - yes, it`s being merged! The Linux Kernel and initrd can also be compressed with lzo for faster unpack at boot-time. LZOP is being required for Kernel build then
44 AMaViS - The famous mail virus scanner has support for using lzop as a decoder, so it looks it is aware of mails containing attachments being compressed with lzop
45 File Roller - archive manager with support for lzop (.tar.lzo , .tzo) archive type
46 Zsh - this shell has builtin completion support for lzop
47 LZO.Net - Highspeed compression for .Net
48 Partclone - it`s a branch project of the well-known backup utility "Partition Image" a.k.a partimage. Partclone provide faster image compression using lzo and provide higher compatibility of ext2/ext3 file systems using e2fslibs.
49 Flexbackup - a flexible backup tool
50 FWU - FireWise Utilities. FWU is a suite of tools for dynamically generating firewall tables in either binary or script format for several operating systems. Features in dev: iptables, ip6tables, ipfw, pf, SHA2 bin hashing and LZO bin compression
51 TinyCrypt - TinyCrypt is a fast, simple encryption algorithm that delivers high security for encryption at the file level. Files are compressed using fast LZO compression.
52 sTar - a very fast and Posix 1003.1 compliant tar archiver for UNIX. Latest pre-release has support for lzo compression
53 Brian's Compression Shell (BCS) - shell format for image animation / video files
54 esXpress - The ONLY scalable and completely fault tolerant backup, restoration and disaster recovery solution for Virtual Infrastructure 3.x.
55 GRUB - the well known GRand Unified Bootloader
56 LZOCodec - windows codec for lossless video compression.
57 FalconStor IPStor Network Storage Server (NSS)
58 GNU Tar - Finally, GNU Tar got support for lzo/lzop compression. Check out latest CVS version
59 lessfs - OpenSource data de-duplication using quicklz or lzo for compression
As this list has grown to a large number of projects and it`s not worth further extending it due to really widespread usage of lzo compression, as of 26.12.2008 i stop adding more links actively. Use http://www.koders.com/ to find further projects which are using lzo/lzop.
Comments, suggestions & feedback is welcome !
If you know of some other software incorporating lzo and you want it getting listed here,
please send mail to devzero AT web DOT de !
