Gzip 1.7 Released With Synchronous & Rsyncable Options Written by Michael Larabel in GNU on 28 March 2016 at 10:03 AM EDT. 2 Comments Gzip 1.7 was released this morning with two new features. New to Gzip is a --synchronous option for forcing fsync usage when outputting data for greater reliability, but obviously at the cost of slower performance. Gzip 1.7 also has a --rsyncable option when compres
