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by rustyhancock 142 days ago
Yes, it's a lossy process.

If your archive drops it you can't get it back.

If you don't want it you can just chmod -R u=rw,go=r,a-x

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> If your archive drops it you can't get it back.

Hence, the common archive format is tar not zip.