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Another option, should you need better compression than zip with the same damage tolerance, is xz files in an uncompressed tar.
by akx 10y ago
Another option, should you need better compression than zip with the same damage tolerance, is xz files in an uncompressed tar.
- fbender 10y agoHow does TAR mitigate the issues mentioned in the paper? Sincerely curious, my knowledge is limited. AFAICS, XZ can still "corrupt" the TAR stream and you'll need quite a bit of extra error correction to recover from that.
- nothrabannosir 10y agoOP means xz all individual files, then tar them without compression.
- lathiat 10y agoNot as silly a suggestion as it sounds