That’s fine. I’m use to being unrepresented in the arj, lha, and uc2 crew
.tar.gz
.zlibWhat’s wrong with .7z?
Nothing, but I’ve read people who act as if tar files are some sort of alien artifact ready to rip their faces off.
I’m a 7z person.
ZSTD FTW
Damn you guys borrowing consonants from polish names now?
Wut?
I think it’s a joke about how people from Poland have a lot of consonant letters in their name, particularly the letter Z. This appears strange to non-poles, and thus became the subject of many jokes. So ZSTD looks a little bit like a Polish name in the sense that it’s made up of many consonant letters, including a Z.
More examples of people making fun of Polish names:
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I’m the weird one in the room. I’ve been using 7z for the last 10-15 years and now
.tar.zst, after finding out that ZStandard achieves higher compression than 7-Zip, even with 7-Zip in “best” mode, LZMA version 1, huge dictionary sizes and whatnot.zstd --ultra -M99000 -22 files.tar -o files.tar.zstYou can actually use Zstandard as your codec for 7z to get the benefits of better compression and a modern archive format! Downside is it’s not a default codec so when someone else tries to open it they may be confused by it not working.
That is an interesting implementation of security through obscurity…
How does one enable this on the standard 7Zip client?
On Windows, it’s easy! Unfortunately, on Linux, as far as I know, you currently have to use a non-standard client.
This guy tar balls
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I still wonder what that’s like. Somebody must still occasionally get a notification that SOMEWHERE somebody paid for their WinRAR license and is like “WOAH WE GOT ANOTHER ONE!”
Never looked back since 7z though. :D
Good ol -xvjpf
Compatibility aside, I’d say that
.tar.pxzaka.tpxzis probably my vote.LZMA is probably what I’d want to use.
xzand7zipuse that. It’s a bit slow to compress, but it has good compression ratios, and it’s faster to decompress than bzip2.pixzpermits for parallel LZMA compression/decompression. On present-day processors with a lot of cores, that’s desirable.It also can use .tar as its container format, which is desirable; that’s everywhere.
The major drawback to .tar is that it doesn’t support indexed access, so extracting a single file isn’t fast, but .tar.pxz does.
.tar.xz
xz is quite slow though
pixz is in “extra” repo in arch. Same as pigz.
tar c file | pxz > file.tar.xz
Same algo as in 7z
I had no idea about that!
There’s several levels you can use to trade off additional space for requiring more processing power. That being said, I hate xz and it still feels slow AF every time I use it.
I hate 7z, it’s slow (at least for me) and for some reason I often have problems with these files
It starting 0.5 seconds slower than usual saved us all a bit of a headache as it turns out.
Yeah, it’s similar enough to tar.gz to always confuse me.
wait until you learn about
.tar.lzTar lzma nuts, amirite?
TAR LAZER!
Good for image backups, after zeroing empty space.
.txz, I’m too lazy to type the full nameZPAQ is for cool people with massive space savings
