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Indeed, but many programs, backup or otherwise, or unaware of it. IIRC gzip/bzip/zstd don’t (will spend time reading and writing all the missing pages) whereS g
by beagle3 7y ago
Indeed, but many programs, backup or otherwise, or unaware of it. IIRC gzip/bzip/zstd don’t (will spend time reading and writing all the missing pages) whereS gnu tar does.
- terrelln 7y agoZstd by default will write sparse files when it detects runs of zeros during decompression, but isn't aware of it when reading a file.