> FRIGN <dev_AT_frign.de> hat am 17. Juli 2014 um 12:46 geschrieben:
> > Another way would be to have an additional meta data file. It could be
> > packed in
> > a TAR file together with the image data. This leads to a file like
> > example.image.tgz
>
> This is closer to the Unix-philosophy, however, as noted before,
> bzip2 is way more efficient than gzip.
The container gives it a cleaner looking but then zcat (or any hypothetical bzip
equivalent) is rendered unusable. This makes parsing is way more complex.
– koehr
Received on Thu Jul 17 2014 - 14:11:25 CEST