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Often these archive projects have the goal of propagating the archive across many different systems, for which reducing size is very valuable. This is basically
by rcxdude 2y ago
Often these archive projects have the goal of propagating the archive across many different systems, for which reducing size is very valuable. This is basically a compression exercise in the case where there are many large duplicated blocks.
- brudgers 2y agoThanks, that makes sense. The question began, I am working on a game preservation project.
- canucker2016 2y agoThe line you referenced is a statement - not a question. The third line of the post is "The goals are: - bring the size down - retain good read speed (for further processing/reversing) - easy sharable format - lower end machines can use it"
- DrFrugal 2y agoThis is correct - the main goal is to have this rather compact, but still having good read times. This will allow me to store it on my new 4 TiB NVMe drive. A lot of iterative scanning will happen, because I search for interesting information, which helps reverse engineering. Also it allows me to share this with other people over the internet before I kick the bucket in a few decades... transferring 10.4 TiB would be rather boring :D