Krafting@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 1 year agothe fear of missing out a better compressionlemmy.worldimagemessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up113file-text
arrow-up113imagethe fear of missing out a better compressionlemmy.worldKrafting@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square41fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarewoelkchen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoFirst bundling everything in a tar file just to compress the thing in an individual step is kinda stupid, though. Everything takes much longer because of that. If you don’t need to preserve POSIX permissions, tar is pointless anyway.
minus-squareStupidmanager@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoSlower, yes. More compression, yes. Stupid, no. tar serves a purpose beyond persevering permissions.
First bundling everything in a tar file just to compress the thing in an individual step is kinda stupid, though. Everything takes much longer because of that. If you don’t need to preserve POSIX permissions, tar is pointless anyway.
Slower, yes. More compression, yes. Stupid, no. tar serves a purpose beyond persevering permissions.