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0 pointsGrayShade8y ago0 comments

One think I dislike about tarballs is the lack of random access support.

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cpuguy838y ago· 2 in thread

You can build random access around tarballs, just need to index the header data.

Shameless plug, this is what https://github.com/cpuguy83/tarfs does.

Granted, you do have to traverse the entire tarball.

> You can build random access around tarballs, just need to index the header data.

> Granted, you do have to traverse the entire tarball.

So you can't randomly access a tarball, you can cache the linear access you've already done.

You can read all the headers without reading the whole file by just seeking over the file data....

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