No More Compression Level Limits for LZMA - pete4abw/lrzip-next GitHub Wiki
LZMA allows 9 levels of compression
In stream.c
, the original lrzip source code takes compression level and factors it by 7/9 to conform to LZMA's standard of 7 levels. This was and is an error. LZMA allows 9 levels of compression.
old stream.c
/* only 7 levels with lzma, scale them */
lzma_level = control->compression_level * 7 / 9;
if (!lzma_level)
lzma_level = 1;