Timeline for tar reverse of '--to-command', or: compressing tar entries individually, or: tar with plenty of large files
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| May 23, 2017 at 12:41 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jan 11, 2016 at 21:45 | answer | added | Martin Gernhard | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 2, 2014 at 14:00 | comment | added | Yuval |
Then again, it seems sensible to give the user the option to choose between compression efficiency and access efficiency. I guess this makes sense since tar was intended for use with tapes -- however it still supports seekable archives!
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| Nov 2, 2014 at 13:58 | history | edited | Yuval | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
refinement
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| Nov 2, 2014 at 13:23 | comment | added | Daniel B | As for the why: Compression efficiency. If you compress all data in one go, you achieve a higher compression ratio. Compressing every file individually could, especially with many small files, result in a result that is larger than the total input size. | |
| Nov 2, 2014 at 13:18 | history | edited | Yuval | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added clarifications
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| Oct 31, 2014 at 6:31 | answer | added | Robin Hood | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 31, 2014 at 0:39 | history | asked | Yuval | CC BY-SA 3.0 |