Krafting@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 26 days agothe fear of missing out a better compressionlemmy.worldimagemessage-square122fedilinkarrow-up1567arrow-down16file-text
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minus-squarejj4211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·26 days agoWell, tar.zstd is starting to be the thing now.
minus-squarewoelkchen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·26 days agoFirst bundling everything in a tar file just to compress the thing in an individual step is kinda stupid, though. Everything takes much longer because of that. If you don’t need to preserve POSIX permissions, tar is pointless anyway.
minus-squareStupidmanager@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·26 days agoSlower, yes. More compression, yes. Stupid, no. tar serves a purpose beyond persevering permissions.
Well, tar.zstd is starting to be the thing now.
First bundling everything in a tar file just to compress the thing in an individual step is kinda stupid, though. Everything takes much longer because of that. If you don’t need to preserve POSIX permissions, tar is pointless anyway.
Slower, yes. More compression, yes. Stupid, no. tar serves a purpose beyond persevering permissions.