TAR.LZMA (TLZMA)到TBZ2 (TAR.BZ2)转换器

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.