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That is exactly why the lackof in-archive compression is bad, with tar you lose tje whole rest of the archive on a single bit error, with in-archive compression
by fhars 16y ago
That is exactly why the lackof in-archive compression is bad, with tar you lose tje whole rest of the archive on a single bit error, with in-archive compression you lose just the file the error is located in.
- btilly 16y agoAlso tar's behavior gives you better compression in the common (at least on Unix) case of many small text files with related content. In other words the trade-off is exactly the opposite of what had been guessed above.