TechSquidTV@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 hours agoA deep dive into the tar formatdepot.devexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up168arrow-down10
arrow-up168arrow-down1external-linkA deep dive into the tar formatdepot.devTechSquidTV@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 hours agomessage-square5fedilink
minus-squaretallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-29 hours agoI’d say pixz is considerably more interesting to improve tar. https://github.com/vasi/pixz Used as a compressor with tar, it adds: Parallel compression/decompression, increasingly important with many-core processors. Indexed access. Tarballs, unlike, say, zip or 7zip, don’t normally support jumping right to the point in an archive where a file lives. It’s LZMA-based, like xz, lzip, or 7zip. Good-but-slow compression, faster decompression than bzip.
I’d say
pixzis considerably more interesting to improvetar.https://github.com/vasi/pixz
Used as a compressor with
tar, it adds:Parallel compression/decompression, increasingly important with many-core processors.
Indexed access. Tarballs, unlike, say, zip or 7zip, don’t normally support jumping right to the point in an archive where a file lives.
It’s LZMA-based, like
xz,lzip, or7zip. Good-but-slow compression, faster decompression than bzip.