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Sort compressed tar archives to make them smaller

3 pointsby alanfranzonialmost 9 years ago

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zebracanevraalmost 9 years ago
&gt; If this were 70.5GB instead of 705MB and the data exhibited identical performance, the final archive would be 4.1GB smaller<p>I don&#x27;t think the savings for a file 10x as large can be extrapolated. This likely wouldn&#x27;t work as the (default) window size for XZ would be too small; the similarities would be too sparse. To get the same benefits you&#x27;d need to use at least 10x as much memory by increasing the window size.