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Denis Reva
rarogcmex
ZArchive is yet another file archive format. Think of zip, tar, 7z, etc. but with the requirement of allowing random-access reads and supporting compression.
- Supports random-access reads within stored files
- Uses zstd compression (64KiB blocks)
- Scales reasonably well up to multiple terabytes with millions of files
- The theoretical size limit per-file is 2^48-1 (256 Terabyte)
- The encoding for paths within the archive is Windows-1252 (case-insensitive)
- Contains a SHA256 hash of the whole archive for integrity checks
- Endian-independent. The format always uses big-endian internally
- Stateless file and directory iterator handles which don't require memory allocation
Exzap/ZArchive