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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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[-] Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee 1 points 1 month 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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