Talk:Compression

Disk compression

Putting disk-level transparent compression formats here arguably contradicts the "Stream compression formats" text. But I don't see a better place to put them -- I guess I want this page to be for "all compression topics that don't belong somewhere else". -Jsummers (talk) 19:10, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

For the clarity sake, do you mean Compression#Transparent_file_compression, Filesystem, especially the likes of NTFS/BTRFS as a prime example that can optionally compress files, or Filesystem#Compressed_filesystems? I do feel like "Stream compression formats" should really be more Unix definition of it. It's a common misconception that (novice) users falsely believes tar is like zip, meaning that it supports compression, when in fact that's handled externally. That, and stream compressors has no concept of multiple file inclusions, where if several files were fed into the stream compression program, the result would be several discretely compressed files, instead of "archived" as one single compressed file in that sense. Anonymoususer852 (talk) 09:44, 9 August 2025 (UTC)