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Re:Why not tar? Limitations of the tar file format. by cybernytrix on Monday September 06, 2010 @04:32PM (#1667358)
Compress before tarring is a really dumb idea and you will get terrible compression ratios - you cannot exploit data patterns across files. It could work if you ask gzip to write some sort of a global table...
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Re:Why not tar? Limitations of the tar file format. by Nelson69 on Monday September 06, 2010 @06:38PM (#1667550)
You also make a bad block affect potentially every file following it. When if you compress pre-tar you could find the next file boundary and recover the rest.
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