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Xz format inadequate for general use
https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html
#ycombinator #lzip #LZMA #bzip2 #gzip #data_compression #long_term_archiving -
🎉 Behold, the groundbreaking revelation: #Xz is not the Holy Grail of data formats! 🚀 Apparently, using xz for digital preservation is like using a sieve as a bucket—bound to fail. Who knew? 🤦♂️ Stick to #bzip2, #gzip, or #lzip if you want actual functionality and avoid sinking your data into the abyss of inadequacy. 🔍💾
https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html #dataformats #digitalpreservation #HackerNews #ngated -
Xz format inadequate for general use
https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html
#HackerNews #XzFormat #Inadequate #GeneralUse #DataCompression #Lzip #HackerNews
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This is Internet Gold.
> "... it is important to note that the compression algorithm used by lzip only discards the unimportant data. And if it was unimportant before, what makes it so important now? Huh? In fact, many users may find that compressing their entire file system and then restoring it will be a good way to learn what is truly important."
https://web.archive.org/web/20010608045914/http://lzip.sourceforge.net/faq.html
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LZIP GUIDA RAPIDA PARTE 2
Tarlz è un'implementazione parallela (multi-thread) e multi-membro (multi-blocco) dell'archiviatore tar e del compressore lzip . Tarlz usa la libreria di compressione lzlib ...
#UnoLinux #lzip #tarlz #lzma #compressionedati #archivio #opensurce #linux #tutorial #guidainformatica #compressione #noblogo
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lzip, questo sconosciuto compressore dati...
#lzip #UnoLinux #compressionedati
#lzma #opensourcehttps://noblogo.org/fenix/lzip-questo-sconosciuto-compressore-dati
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@rsc Thanks. Going even further back, I seem to recall some heated discussions about multi-threaded compression support in #XZ. A quick search only turns up https://sourceforge.net/p/lzmautils/discussion/708858/thread/d37155d1/ which is rather civil. Perhaps they were elsewhere in SourceForge (directed at Igor Pavlov?).
Also of note, 2008 discussions in the #7zip forum showing how it all came to be (the last comment mentions #lzip but was missed: funny!).
https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/f2cf3a4e/#316e/4360
https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/01397a99/#e22c/005a
https://sourceforge.net/p/lzmautils/discussion/708858/thread/d4a4effd/#7b4a -
@GNUmatic As someone who's never really done a deep dive into the technical details and pros and cons of #compression formats, I found that article to be completely insane! I want to hear someone try to argue the other side, because this is so damning that I want to make sure it's not just the author's #bias. :blob_dizzy_face:
On a related note: why do you prefer #bzip2 over #lzip, if I may ask? Because to be frank, I've never heard of the latter before now, and yet I'm about to install tarlz on my machine.
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WE FUCKING TOLD YOU SOOOOO :kyou:
#lzip #xz
RE: https://mastodon.grin.hu/users/grin/statuses/112181404585017638 -
#lzip > #xz :suwako_evil:
RE: https://infosec.exchange/users/wvu/statuses/112181530006582939 -
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Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving
https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html
#ycombinator #lzip #LZMA #bzip2 #gzip #data_compression #long_term_archiving -
Czy wspominałem kiedyś, że xz-utils 5.4.0+ obsługuje dekompresję plików .lz? Obydwa formaty są bardzo zbliżone, więc udało nam się wpakować do #xz wsparcie drugiego formatu przy minimalnych zmianach, i w ten sposób oszczędzić wam konieczności instalowania drugiego programu!
A dlaczego to ważne? Bo oznacza to, że możecie teraz używać lepszego formatu #lzip, nie martwiąc się, że wasi użytkownicy będą musieli instalować lzipa, by wypakować te pliki! Unpacker.eclass w #Gentoo już korzysta z tego dobrodziejstwa.
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Did I ever mention that since xz-utils 5.4.0+ supports decompressing .lz files? Since the two formats are very similar, we could get #xz to support the other format with minimal overhead, and save you from having to use two tools!
Why is this important? Because it means that you can now use the superior #lzip format without having to worry that your users will have to install lzip to unpack them! Unpacker.eclass #Gentoo is already taking advantage of that.
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A controversial #critique 🔥 by the author of #lzip:
“Xz Format Inadequate For Long-Term Archiving” [2016], Antonio Diaz Diaz (https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html).
On HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16884832
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20103255
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#zutils are compressed data handlers.
zutils is a collection of simple tools that transparently handle a mix of uncompressed and compressed data in a number of formats. zutils includes zcat (for decompression), zdiff, zgrep, and ztest (for integrity checks). zutils handles #gzip, #bzip2, #xz, and #lzip in any combination.
Website 🔗️: https://www.nongnu.org/zutils/zutils.html
apt 📦️: zutils
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I need to #compress a lot of #logfile's, so, again, tested #pbzip2 #lbzip2 #lzip #xz #pixz #pigz and #zstd.
The current winner for time/size race was "lzip -7" (which is same as plzip -7, uses all threads available). #Compression rate slightly below pixz but it's hugely faster (also has better fileformat 😉).
May have been some zstd only if it would be simple to figure out the right combo of 22 options. -
#Lzip is a robust #compression #utility.
Lzip uses LZMA like 7z and XZ. Unlike 7z and XZ is that an Lzip file has fewer headers.
Less headers means a .lz is smaller than a .xz and less exists to be corrupted. Lzip can also correct a bit flip in any part of a member, unlike XZ.
If more than a bit flips #Lziprecover can stitch several corrupt Lzip files into a single intact archive.
Lzip 🔗: http://lzip.nongnu.org/lzip.html
Lziprecover 🔗: https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lziprecover.html
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Lzip seems to be one of the most robust data compression formats we have - but it's also not widely known. It's a great replacement for XZ, which was proven to be very messy by the Lzip's author.
I'm using Lzip!
http://lzip.nongnu.org/lzip.html
#lzip #xz #datacompression
