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the fear of missing out a better compression
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this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2024
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Bzip2 compression is often surprisingly good with text files, especially log files. It seems to "see" redundancies there - and logs often have a lot of it - far better than gzip and sometimes even lzma.
Anyway, if I saw a bunch of
tar.bz2files, that's what I'd expect to find in them.