On 2014-10-12 23:50:16 [+0200], Kevin Price wrote: > > xz does not understand sparse files, but compresses arbritary amounts of > 0x00's instead. Currently, tar could serve as a workaround.
The `tar' format has support for sparse files. xz on the other hand does not. Adding sparse support would change file format and so break support with older versions. This is a special case here. BZ2 has a RLE pass which should support the repetitive zero case (and my guess is that bz2 creates a smaller file here). Overall this RLE pass is considered as a burden. I suggest this to close this as there is not much that can be done. > -- > Kevin Price > http://www.kevin-price.de/ Sebastian
