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Compress before tarring is a really dumb idea and you will get terrible compression ratios - you cannot exploit data patterns across files. It could work if you
by cybernytrix 16y ago
Compress before tarring is a really dumb idea and you will get terrible compression ratios - you cannot exploit data patterns across files. It could work if you ask gzip to write some sort of a global table...
- Nelson69 16y agoYou also make a bad block affect potentially every file following it. When if you compress pre-tar you could find the next file boundary and recover the rest.