From discussion that start in this thread, we decided to create a simple plugin that installs a set of additional command line tools onto your unRAID server.
WARNING: These tools are for advanced users. Their use is not officially supported by Lime Tech. Use at your own risk and do not ask for direct support from us on the use of these tools.
Eric put this plugin together mainly so that folks who want to do development or more advanced functions can have access to do s
I'd like to request the addition of the pixz compression tool.
It's a wonderful extension to the standard xz (LZMA) compression tool that allows random access to files in the archive. For large tarballs, the ability to extract any arbitrary file, and show the archive index, without reading the rest of the files in the archive (more or less constant time).
I deal with 2-3 GB archives in my day to day work and I am guessing that I'll be dealing with a lot more as I get