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0 pointspaulddraper3mo ago0 comments

What is a container then?

Just an id,blob format?

The purpose of tar (or competitors) is to serialize files and their metadata.

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Tar is not the pinnacle of "containers"; it has age and ubiquity, and that's about it at this point.

Tar's purpose was to serialise files and metadata in 1979, accounting for tape foibles such as fixed or variable data block size.

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Tar is not the pinnacle of "containers"; it has age and ubiquity, and that's about it at this point.

Tar's purpose was to serialise files and metadata in 1979, accounting for tape foibles such as fixed or variable data block size.

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