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You can read all the headers without reading the whole file by just seeking over the file data....
by Vendan 8y ago
You can read all the headers without reading the whole file by just seeking over the file data....
- sitkack 8y agoBut you would still have to decompress it. How much support for legacy systems do we need vs just making a slightly better version of a jar?
- cpuguy83 8y agoDecompression has nothing to do with tar, though. But I agree, it is painful to deal with tar+gz.
- sitkack 8y ago> Decompression has nothing to do with tar Which is exactly the problem. Same issue occurred via volume and filesystem management resulting in ZFS. We need systems that compose and also elide. So something that both archives as set of files and compresses them w/o losing affordances over the layer below it in the process.