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the fear of missing out a better compression (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

most of the things i want to send around my network in archives are already compressed binary files, so i just tar everything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You reinvented zip and didn't even know it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

tar was nearly and adult when zip was born.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

See my reply here: https://midwest.social/comment/10257041

The two aren't really equivalent. They make different tradeoffs. The scheme of "compress individual files, then archive" from GP is what zip does. Tar does "archive first, then compress the whole thing".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The link does not load for some reason, but tar itself does not compress anything. Compression can (and usually is) applied afterwards, but that's an additional integration that is not part of Tape ARchive, as such.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yes, I'm aware of how this works.

The important point is that zip and compressed tarballs have overlapping but not identical purposes.