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		gkfasdfasdf on May 17, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tarballs, the ultimate container image format Zip files have a directory which lists the files in the archive and their offsets, etc. No such feature in a tar archive.

barrkel on May 17, 2018 [–]

If we're talking about something that indexes gzip streams, it's not a leap for it to also index the inner tar.

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