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I like zstd as a format, but it's too new for archival use -- it's only been available for five years or so. gzip is easily the winner; while it isn't the best
by duskwuff 4y ago
I like zstd as a format, but it's too new for archival use -- it's only been available for five years or so. gzip is easily the winner; while it isn't the best compressor available, it's been around for the last 30 years, and is likely to still be in use another 30 years from now.
- mjevans 4y agoThere's also the option to compress with one format now, and during routine data storage maintenance to use newer better storage layers, like compression. What's most important are integrity checks, redundancy / duplication, and the ability to repair to the source data stream.