Nice trick with the sorting. We use xz compressed Linux root filesystem images q...

		usr1106 on March 15, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why are tar.xz files 15x smaller when using Python... Nice trick with the sorting. We use xz compressed Linux root filesystem images quite a bit. I wonder whether having arranged the files in the filesystem images could achieve a significant saving. Unlikely to be a factor of 15, but 20-30 wouldn't be bad either.