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		joosters on Oct 22, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving Really? I thought that's what the page was telling me when it said .xz was a container format. In that case, its file format is extra odd!

saurik on Oct 22, 2016 [–]

Yeah: what they mean by "container format" here is similar to the usage in video compression file formats, where ".avi" doesn't imply any particular compression algorithms. An xz file is a container format which is designed for use to store another container format.

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