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by chasil 1507 days ago
That is interesting.

The author of lzip has harsh criticism of xz, and admiration of bzip2 for error detection/correction and "rightsizing" the container format.

I use lzip in preference to xz unless I need portability.

https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html

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As far as I know xz and zstd and completely unrelated?