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tredre3 on March 22, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Pack: A new container format for compressed files

Pack may not be it, but it would be nice if Tar would go the way of the dodo. It has all the flaws that you mentioned (and more!).

viraptor on March 22, 2024 | [–]

It does not in fact have most of the mentioned flaws. It's pipeable, immutable, continuous, trivial to repair, safe for append-only writing.

epcoa on March 22, 2024 | [–]

It literally has none of the issues mentioned though. Not that it doesn’t have limitations but those listed aren’t them.

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