In general, it is preferable now to use squashfs for most tar use cases three days. Random access, high compression levels, and completely operable with userla

In general, it is preferable now to use squashfs for most tar use cases three days. Random access, high compression levels, and completely operable with userland tools and a FUSE file system. tar does have some niche uses (streaming) but if you don’t need streaming, you can get massively faster compression into a format much more ergonomically pleasant.