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A .tar archive is basically only the files cat'ed together, with a header and index added, right?

And a .tar.gz takes forever to modify, because it needs to first extract the .tar.

So why is there no archive format that just cat'es the compressed files together?

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[-] agitated_judge@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

You can save .tar.gz files to actual tapes. As you said, it's just one and zeros.

[-] Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Of course, and that is done very often. But why would you want to save a .gz.tar file on a tape?

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