Linus Torvalds - From a recent post over at https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/5/29/1038 - Claimed
"People with restrictive hardware shouldn't make it more inconvenient for people who have better resources." In the tar application, the -z / -j parameters exists for the purpose of decreasing the resultant file size of the created archive. The problem is that in doing so, the compression/decompression time increases. For those with larger amounts of storage, faster disks, and faster internet connections, this benefit is negligible, although they still have to suffer from the increased decompression time from those that have initially used the parameter. I suggest that we follow Linus' idealogy and remove this parameter as - Like he claims - "People with restrictive hardware shouldn't make it more inconvenient for people who have better resources." As removing the parameters entirely would still be an issue for those dealing with legacy archives, the parameters can remain when dealing with extraction - They should simply be prohibited when dealing with the initial compression. Thoughts?
