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by sirsuki 2984 days ago
So what wrong with plain and simple

  tar c foo | gzip > foo.tar.gz
or

  tar c foo | bzip2 > foo.tar.bz2
Been using these for over 20 years now. Why is is so important to change things especially as this article points out for the worse?!
1 comments

Better (smaller and/or faster) compression.