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the fear of missing out a better compression
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this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2024
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how about
.tar.zipor.tar.rar?Zip, RAR, 7z etc. store and compress the files. Tarballs work differently, tar stores the files and the second program compresses the tar as a continuous stream.
They originated in different mediums, programs like zip were born to deal with folder structures, tar was created to deal with linear tape archives (hence the name).
TIL
I prefer .tar.rar.tar.
.tar.zip.tar.xzall the wayKind of redundant. Both
.zipand.rarstore an index of files within the archive and are a bit 'inside-out' when it comes what we get fromtar.gz.That is, ZIP is pretty close to what you'd get if you first gzipped all your files and then put them into a
.tar.RAR does a little more (if I remember correctly), such as generating a dictionary of common redundancies between files and then uses that knowledge to compress the files individually, but better. Something akin to a
.tarfile is still the result though.