9 Mar
2011
9 Mar
'11
1:49 p.m.
On 3/9/11 1:32 PM, Shoppa, Tim wrote:
OTOH I keep all of my images compressed, precisely
because I want to know if any copy has been corrupted.
Another use for uncompressed archives (mainly tape backup images) is you can create a file
that contains
a directory of the contents and a offset to the file header, and have very fast access
within the tape image.
You can't do that if the image has been compressed.