Re: [Gnu-arch-users] archive storage format comments on the size

[Charles Duffy]

On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 17:39, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> this isn't a big deal actually I measured that too. A gzip -d of the
> 3M .tar.gz generated a 65M tar file, that means removing the overhead of
> the filesystem, the uncompressed size was still over 65M. There was no
> waste of space due the fs in the tar file.

IIRC, tar pads out its files to end on a 10k boundary, and has internal
padding such that even a 1-byte files takes about 1k to store. Hence, I
wouldn't quite go as far to say "no waste of space due to the fs" -- as
long as you're willing to consider the tar format a filesystem for those
purposes.

(yes, I'm nitpicking -- sorry).