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Over the past two-three decades of computering I've only noticed xz in deb-packages. Who's using xz as a long-term archiving or general purpose compression for
by cess11 3y ago
Over the past two-three decades of computering I've only noticed xz in deb-packages.
Who's using xz as a long-term archiving or general purpose compression format? TFA doesn't give any examples of this, only that the Debian project picked it for packages, presumably because it creates smaller files than gzip and bzip2. And apt packages are arguably very ephemeral, if a compressed file turned out bad or bitrotted before culling from the repo it's likely to be discovered and fixed easily.
I work in e-archiving, with public sector clients, where we actually do long-term storage of whatever data format. Never seen xz used there.
- lifthrasiir 3y agoDoes e-archiving use bzip2? I think xz was mostly advertised (and successfully adopted) as a substitute for bzip2, because bzip2 was even slower than xz.
- cess11 3y agoI hardly ever come across information-level compression, and when I do it's regular ZIP. The OAIS-implementations my clients use require ZIP or TAR on the packages going in and out of the archiving software, in practice it tends to ZIP. Not sure whether the OAIS itself limits the options in the same way.