Ratarmount collects all file positions inside a TAR so that it can easily jump to and read from any file without extracting it
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Tag: bzip2
lbzip2 – parallel bzip2 compression utility
lbzip2 offers parallel bzip2-compatible compression and decompression, configurable worker threads and convenient pipeline processing.
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PBZIP2 – parallel implementation of bzip2
PBZIP2 speeds up bzip2-compatible compression using multiple threads, configurable block sizes, integrity checks and standard streams.
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Best Linux Multi-Core Compression Tools
This article surveys compression software that makes full use of multi-core processors when compressing files. Many of the tools also offer decompression speedups too.
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