Brion Vibber wrote:
The new dumps are compressed with gzip as it's faster than bzip2 (though bzip2 compresses better).
You might already be aware of this, but for the purposes of preventing misinformation from spreading, please allow me to point out that bzip2 does *not* generally compress better -- it only compresses natural-language text and source code better, but not, for example, the SQL dump of the links table, which contains mostly numbers.
Timwi