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the fear of missing out a better compression (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by Krafting@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 47 points 2 months ago (2 children)

.tar.xz

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 months ago (4 children)

xz is quite slow though

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] TipRing@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

It starting 0.5 seconds slower than usual saved us all a bit of a headache as it turns out.

[–] MaSHiNiK@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I hate 7z, it's slow (at least for me) and for some reason I often have problems with these files

[–] pelya@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

tar c file | pxz > file.tar.xz

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

pixz is in "extra" repo in arch. Same as pigz.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Same algo as in 7z

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

I had no idea about that!

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's similar enough to tar.gz to always confuse me.

[–] palordrolap@kbin.run 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

wait until you learn about .tar.lz

[–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Tar lzma nuts, amirite?

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 3 points 2 months ago

Good for image backups, after zeroing empty space.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

TAR LAZER!