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It also, unlike tar.gz, provides an index for easily seeking to and extracting just one file from the zip archive. My understanding is that doing this in a .tar
by pmahoney 13y ago
It also, unlike tar.gz, provides an index for easily seeking to and extracting just one file from the zip archive. My understanding is that doing this in a .tar.gz means unzipping and processing the whole tarball as a stream.
- derefr 13y agoIndeed--squashfs was basically created to deal with the inadequacies of random-access-extraction from compressed tarballs.