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Re:The tar archive format, and why GNU tar extracts in quadr... by johnwfinigan on Saturday July 23, 2022 @09:07PM (#32209187)
.tar.zst - I have found Zstd to be enormously faster than gzip, bzip2, or xz. Its compression ratio is good and it's available in most Linux distros.
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