Yup. To my surprise xz -1 is faster and compresses better than gzip -6, the default setting. Guess what I'm using now? I'll use zstd when the GNU tar in my dist

Yup. To my surprise xz -1 is faster and compresses better than gzip -6, the default setting. Guess what I'm using now? I'll use zstd when the GNU tar in my distribution supports it directly without resorting to pipes and shell magic. It would be nice if one could specify the compression level on the GNU tar command line. BSD tar already does all of the above.