Krafting@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 2 years agothe fear of missing out a better compressionlemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-linkthe fear of missing out a better compressionlemmy.worldKrafting@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 2 years agomessage-square6fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarejj4211@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoWell, tar.zstd is starting to be the thing now.
minus-squarewoelkchen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years 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-up0·2 years 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.