Krafting@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 7 months agothe fear of missing out a better compressionlemmy.worldimagemessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up111arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up111arrow-down1imagethe fear of missing out a better compressionlemmy.worldKrafting@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 7 months agomessage-square51fedilinkfile-text
minus-square9point6@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-27 months agoI mean xz/7z has kind of been the way for at least a decade now
minus-squarejj4211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoWell, tar.zstd is starting to be the thing now.
minus-squarewoelkchen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months 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-up1·7 months agoSlower, yes. More compression, yes. Stupid, no. tar serves a purpose beyond persevering permissions.
I mean xz/7z has kind of been the way for at least a decade now
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.