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How to compare huge sparse files efficiently?

There are two sparse files. They are proved identical by diff. But it took 20 minutes (too long time) to compare. I am thinking of taring them into tiny files to speed up the comparison. But they tar ...
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Huge Docker file and `tar` behavior

When I did a backup on my Linux system with tar -czv, I noticed that the process is stuck very long at /var/lib/docker/devicemapper/devicemapper/data (way longer than a copy of all my images and ...
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