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    the fear of missing out a better compression (lemmy.world)
    submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

    I mean xz/7z has kind of been the way for at least a decade now

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Well, tar.zstd is starting to be the thing now.

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

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Slower, yes. More compression, yes. Stupid, no. tar serves a purpose beyond persevering permissions.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

    Use an archiving format that does both at once then, preserving whatever tar use cases has and compressing. The two steps are stupid, no arguing against that.