4 ms·
I exclusively use linux, and I wish there was something better than tar that was more widely used. In particular, that didn't have the problem of several subtly
by thayne 4y ago
I exclusively use linux, and I wish there was something better than tar that was more widely used. In particular, that didn't have the problem of several subtly incompatible sets of extensions, and that had better support of using an index, especially in tandem with compression.
But that "something better" isn't zip. It's probably something that doesn't currently exist.
- usefulcat 4y agoI believe pixz adds a file index when compressing tar files. It’s definitely much, much faster at extracting a single file from a large archive compared to a tar file compressed with gzip or zstd.
- jakogut 4y agoWhat about 7z? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/7z https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/7z
- thayne 4y ago7z doesn't support unix file permissions, which means it isn't suitable as a tar replacement.
- ciupicri 4y agoFor what it's worth there is the SQLite Archive, but it's definitely not popular and there is no support for metadata like ownership, permissions or extended attributes (ACLs, SELinux). Also compression is missing on my Fedora system. https://www.sqlite.org/sqlar.html https://www.sqlite.org/sqlar.html / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28668615 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28668615
- thayne 4y ago> there is no support for metadata like ownership, permissions or extended attributes That makes it unsuitable as a tar replacement for many use cases.