[CannoloBlahnik]

This seems like more of a tar problem than a zip problem, unless I'm missing something, given the lack of compression on Hop.

[slaymaker1907]

I think you can still zip files without compression.

[sumtechguy]

Usually the -0 option. https://linux.die.net/man/1/zip -mx=0 for 7zip style programs.

If you also used the mt option with 7zip and just stored you probably could have a decent read rate as I think it spins extra threads.

[sigzero]

Yes, but I don't think anyone does that.

[masklinn]

This ability is an important aspect of “document” archives following the open container format (OCF): the first file in the archive must be uncompressed, called “mimetypes”, and contain the mimetype of the document encoded in us-ascii.