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Tar is not the pinnacle of "containers"; it has age and ubiquity, and that's about it at this point. Tar's purpose was to serialise files and metadata in 1979,
by dwattttt 9mo ago
Tar is not the pinnacle of "containers"; it has age and ubiquity, and that's about it at this point.
Tar's purpose was to serialise files and metadata in 1979, accounting for tape foibles such as fixed or variable data block size.