Timeline for What is the advantage of using 'tar' today?
Current License: CC BY-SA 3.0
4 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 18, 2013 at 0:32 | comment | added | Mark Adler | An amusing exception is that the gzip source code is available as a naked tar, for obvious reasons. | |
| Mar 17, 2013 at 23:33 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Mark Adler | ||
| Mar 16, 2013 at 14:28 | comment | added | Christian |
You practically never see uncompressed tar files and there's a reason for that. tar uses very large chunks, meaning that you get a lot of padding at the end of files. To get rid of all these zeros, it almost always pays to just use gzip without giving it a second thought.
|
|
| Mar 15, 2013 at 3:15 | history | answered | Michael Dillon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |