What is the difference between .tar.7z and .tar.lz?
- Extension
- .tar.7z
- .tar.lz
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Igor Pavlov
- Lzip
- Description
- This format works based on the LZMA principle compression algorithm. It was originally used in 7-Zip archives. tar.7z archives were created for storing info about file owners and for ease of use in Unix systems, based on a TAR archiving tool.
- "Tarball" (.TAR file) compressed with Lzip, a lossless data compressor based on the LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain) algorithm, and therefore uses the compound file extension ".tar.lz;" often used for distributing linux software packages.
- MIME Type
- application/x-7z-compressed
- application/x-lzip-compressed-tar
- Wikipedia
- .tar.7z on Wikipedia
- .tar.lz on Wikipedia