Timeline for Difference between --xz and --lzma in GNU tar?
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| Apr 12, 2013 at 4:30 | comment | added | artyom |
I believe so, at least when using with tar. xz archives can be concatenated, while lzma cannot (limitations of container format) — that's the only notable difference for me, applying xz was used with lzma compression.
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| Apr 12, 2013 at 3:59 | comment | added | Andrew |
So with modern xz-utils, there's effectively no difference?
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| Apr 12, 2013 at 3:58 | vote | accept | Andrew | ||
| Apr 11, 2013 at 10:38 | history | answered | artyom | CC BY-SA 3.0 |