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TAR.LZMA is a compound archive format combining TAR archiving with the LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain Algorithm) compression method developed by Igor Pavlov for the 7-Zip project around 1998. The TAR layer concatenates files with Unix metadata into a single stream, and the LZMA algorithm compresses it using a sophisticated combination of LZ77 dictionary matching with large dictionaries (up to 4 GB), Markov chain-based probability modeling, and range coding. LZMA was the predecessor to the LZMA2 algorithm used in XZ and 7Z formats. Compression ratios significantly exceed gzip and are comparable to bzip2 while offering substantially faster decompression. One advantage is the high compression ratio with fast extraction — LZMA decompresses at speeds close to gzip while achieving compression densities near bzip2 or better, making it efficient for distribution archives that are compressed once and extracted many times. The format is supported by tar's --lzma flag and by 7-Zip across all platforms. While TAR.LZMA has been largely succeeded by TAR.XZ (which uses LZMA2 in a more robust container with integrity checks), existing TAR.LZMA archives remain encountered in software distributions and backup systems that adopted the format before XZ became widely available.
TAR.LZ is a compound archive format combining TAR archiving with lzip compression, a format created by Antonio Diaz Diaz and first released in 2009. The TAR layer bundles files with full Unix metadata into a single stream, and lzip applies LZMA compression with a robust container that includes per-member CRC-32 integrity checking and clean member boundaries. Lzip was designed with long-term archival in mind — it produces a simple, well-documented format with strong error recovery properties: if part of a TAR.LZ file is corrupted, undamaged members can still be extracted, unlike monolithic compressed streams where corruption propagates. The compression ratios are essentially identical to LZMA/XZ since lzip uses the same LZMA algorithm. One advantage is archival resilience — the member-based structure means a multi-part archive can survive partial corruption without losing all data, critical for long-term storage. The clean, minimal format design is another strength: lzip has a simple specification that independent implementations can follow precisely, reducing the risk of compatibility issues over decades of archival. TAR.LZ is used by the GNU Project for distributing source releases and is supported by GNU tar with the --lzip flag, as well as by plzip for parallel compression on multi-core systems.