22 Nov
2004
22 Nov
'04
1:26 p.m.
I don't use compression on any archive I care
about. If you get a
bad block, everything after it is unrecoverable if it has been
compressed.
Depends on the compression mechanism. With bzip2, for example, you
generally lose the rest of that block, but later blocks should be fine.
Tar also has the advantage that the file information
[...] can be
resynchronized at block boundaries.
Not reliably, unless you never roll one tar archive (or other thing
containing block-aligned tar header blocks) into another.
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