From 045d586fb636095e4a6114257b0d567b3c5eb1de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Artur Gurgul1 <artur@gurgul.org>
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2025 07:30:01 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] add compression

---
 bin/make-winux | 25 +++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bin/make-winux b/bin/make-winux
index 777489c..073592f 100755
--- a/bin/make-winux
+++ b/bin/make-winux
@@ -111,12 +111,25 @@ done
 # Create an archive
 #
 
-echo "making the archive"
-zstd -T0 --ultra -22 winux.img -o winux.img.zst
+# echo "making the archive"
+# zstd -T0 --ultra -22 winux.img -o winux.img.zst
 
-# decompression with 
-# unzstd --sparse winux.img.zst
-# or
-# zstd -d --sparse winux.img.zst -o winux.img
+# # decompression with 
+# # unzstd --sparse winux.img.zst
+# # or
+# # zstd -d --sparse winux.img.zst -o winux.img
 
+############# Another option, seems to be the best option
 
+tar --sparse -I 'zstd -T0 --ultra -22 --long=31' \
+  -cvf winux.img.tar.zst winux.img
+# extract
+# brew install gnu-tar
+# tar -I zstd -xvf winux.img.tar.zst
+# on macOS  /opt/homebrew/opt/gnu-tar/libexec/gnubin/tar -I 'zstd --long=31' -xvf winux.img.tar.zst winux.img
+
+# compressing with XZ. Supprisely it seems to have worst compresion rate than zstd
+
+# tar --sparse -I 'xz -T0 -9e' -cvf winux.img.tar.xz winux.img
+## Extracting
+# tar -I xz -xvf winux.img.tar.xz