Comment by paulddraper
1 month ago
What is a container then?
Just an id,blob format?
The purpose of tar (or competitors) is to serialize files and their metadata.
1 month ago
What is a container then?
Just an id,blob format?
The purpose of tar (or competitors) is to serialize files and their metadata.
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.