> The rest of the sane world will continue to use gzip because the marginal compression savings is not worth the compatibility issues. It is definitely worth i

> The rest of the sane world will continue to use gzip because the marginal compression savings is not worth the compatibility issues. It is definitely worth it to use a modern compression format. I regularly take backups of one service I run. Originally I used gzip, and then on someone's recommendation I tried zstd. Here are the results: gzip compression time: 204s zstd compression time: 19.1s gzip decompression time: 28.2s zstd decompression time: 6.4s gzip compressed size: 3.0GB zstd compressed size: 1.7GB I ain't ever going back to gzip, especially when it wastes so much disk space and CPU cycles. > sane world [..] Solaris ...I think we're living in a different world. (: