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Re:Why not tar? Limitations of the tar file format. by fhars on Monday September 06, 2010 @01:47AM (#1665997)
That is exactly why the lackof in-archive compression is bad, with tar you lose tje whole rest of the archive on a single bit error, with in-archive compression you lose just the file the error is located in.
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Re:Why not tar? Limitations of the tar file format. by btilly on Monday September 06, 2010 @02:19AM (#1666052)
Also tar's behavior gives you better compression in the common (at least on Unix) case of many small text files with related content.

In other words the trade-off is exactly the opposite of what had been guessed above.

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