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Re: Suggestion: Remove the -z / -j parameter from tar when dealing with
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: Suggestion: Remove the -z / -j parameter from tar when dealing with compression |
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Tue, 2 Jun 2020 16:45:58 -0700 |
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On 6/2/20 11:09 AM, Reelix wrote:
> the -z / -j parameters exists for the purpose
> of decreasing the resultant file size of the created archive. The
> problem is that in doing so, the compression/decompression time
> increases.
These days those options are used more often than not, at least in my neck of
the woods, because they're a real win for making tarballs intended for
distribution across the network. Let's keep them.