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minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-23 hours agoThe pixz compressor provides parallized compression/decompression (desirable on modern CPUs), uses LZMA (like 7zip or xz), and provides indexed access when used as tar's compressor. The last of these is what you want. https://github.com/vasi/pixz $ tar cvf foo.tar.pixz -Ipixz foo/ pixz is packaged in Debian-family distros.
The pixz compressor provides parallized compression/decompression (desirable on modern CPUs), uses LZMA (like 7zip or
xz), and provides indexed access when used astar'scompressor. The last of these is what you want.https://github.com/vasi/pixz
pixzis packaged in Debian-family distros.