Exa, lost&foundmight invent a new archive format
just zstd blobs in an nbt file or some shit
all i really want is 7z semisolid archives with zstd and good encryption
maybe with an autogenerated dictionary in the head of the file or something
how has nobody used the name "YAR" for Yet Another aRchive yet
(at least not that i can find)
ARSAB, A Really Simple And Bad (Archive Format)
squashfs meets all my needs really
i forgot about my .sqfs.luks thing just long enough to get upset about 7z again
i have contrived an archive format that is an uncompressed zip that contains a zstd dictionary trained on every file in the input as a specially-named file, and every non-special file in the zip is compressed with zstd
using the linux kernel as a corpus and compressing a bunch of other formats for comparison
zsa is the aforementioned contrived archive format
it's better than zip but that is saying very little
here's the dictionary file zstd generated as text http://unascribed.com/f/linux-dict.txt
The encoding for paths within the archive is Windows-1252 (case-insensitive)
i strongly disagree with this
but seems good otherwise and is in the arch repo
the reference implementation command line tool is super barebones and crashes when encountering symlinks
so i can't get it to compress the linux kernel tree
...i dereferenced all the links and now it explodes because it's designed by a windows user and treats
include/uapi/linux/netfilter_ipv6/ip6t_hl.h
and
include/uapi/linux/netfilter_ipv6/ip6t_HL.h
as the same path
i think i hate zarchiver actually
vriska, thief of light 
@unascribed per an issue comment from the dev the readme is incorrect, paths are opaque binary blobs (which will conventionally be UTF-8 on *nix)
@leo i guessss that's fine