devsnd/tarindexer
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python module for indexing tar files for fast access
4 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 0 stories, 4 comments · first 2016-06-17 · latest 2023-10-16
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…least a couple years old so things may have changed. [0] http://www.htslib.org/doc/bgzip.html [1] https://github.com/devsnd/tarindexer
comment by abetusk · 2023-10-16 · in Zip – How not to design a file format (2021) -
…uses an index file (one time creation) that is used to record key points for random access. [0] https://github.com/devsnd/tarindexer [1] http://www.htslib.org/doc/bgzip.html
comment by abetusk · 2021-11-10 · in Hop: Faster than unzip and tar at reading individual files -
…out only it and nothing more. Now, does such a utility already exist? The answer seems to be yes: https://github.com/devsnd/tarindexer
comment by pwg · 2018-05-16 · in Tarballs, the ultimate container image format -
…a guy on IRC who needed a 'quick way to access huge .tar files', I found one written in python: https://github.com/devsnd/tarindexer He ended up doing the smart thing and changing his archiving program to not use .tar files, which solved…
comment by bluedino · 2016-06-17 · in How are zlib, gzip and Zip related? (2013)