the fear of missing out a better compression ( lemmy.world )

PeggyLouBaldwin , vor 29 Tagen

most of the things i want to send around my network in archives are already compressed binary files, so i just tar everything.

frezik , vor 29 Tagen

You reinvented zip and didn't even know it.

Illecors , vor 29 Tagen

tar was nearly and adult when zip was born.

frezik , vor 29 Tagen

See my reply here: https://midwest.social/comment/10257041

The two aren't really equivalent. They make different tradeoffs. The scheme of "compress individual files, then archive" from GP is what zip does. Tar does "archive first, then compress the whole thing".

Illecors , vor 28 Tagen

The link does not load for some reason, but tar itself does not compress anything. Compression can (and usually is) applied afterwards, but that's an additional integration that is not part of Tape ARchive, as such.

frezik , vor 28 Tagen

Yes, I'm aware of how this works.

The important point is that zip and compressed tarballs have overlapping but not identical purposes.

robolemmy , vor 29 Tagen

tar cvjf compressed-shit.tar.bz2 /path/to/uncompressed/shit/

Only way to fly.

sik0fewl , vor 29 Tagen

I stopped doing that because I found it painfully slow. And it was quicker to gzip and upload than to bzip2 and upload.

Of course, my hardware wasn't quite as good back then. I also learned to stop adding 'v' flag because the bottleneck was actually stdout! (At least when extracting).

robolemmy , vor 29 Tagen

for the last 14 years of my career, I was using stupidly overpowered Oracle exadata systems exclusively, so "slow" meant 3 seconds instead of 1.

Now that I'm retired, I pretty much never need to compress anything.

JoShmoe , vor 29 Tagen

I’m curious about the contents in your compressed shit.