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That would work if your tar was uncompressed. The lengths in the tar are meaningless in a compressed file.
by Skunkleton 10y ago
That would work if your tar was uncompressed. The lengths in the tar are meaningless in a compressed file.
- shawnz 10y agoThat's not true, xz allows efficient decompression of arbitrary byte ranges inside the file.
- Skunkleton 10y agoDoes it let you seek by a decompressed byte count, or or does it let you decode arbitrary compressed byte ranges?