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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] -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.