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		Skunkleton on Oct 22, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Xz format inadequate for long-term archiving That would work if your tar was uncompressed. The lengths in the tar are meaningless in a compressed file.

shawnz on Oct 23, 2016 [–]

That's not true, xz allows efficient decompression of arbitrary byte ranges inside the file.

Skunkleton on Oct 28, 2016 | [–]

Does it let you seek by a decompressed byte count, or or does it let you decode arbitrary compressed byte ranges?

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