nixCraft 🐧Mar 16, 2023
In my quick and dirty test, xz produced the best possible compression for tar and other file compression-related tasks under #macOS, #Linux, #BSD and #Unix-like systems. See https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-do-i-compress-a-whole-linux-or-unix-directory/ for more info.
Show threadStuMar 16, 2023
@nixCraft I never really understood why so many different compressions were needed in Linux or FreeBSD
Show threadJeremi M Gosney 
@iamstu @nixCraft They have different goals, different strategies, different strengths. Some excel at compression ratio at the expense of compression time, some have great compression and decompression time at the expense of compression ratio. Some are better at text than binary and vice versa, some are better with lots of small files, so on and so forth.
Mar 16, 2023 at 10:06amWeb
Show threadStuMar 16, 2023
@epixoip @nixCraft thank you for the info 😊