Top 6 C Tar Projects

libarchive

33 2,861 8.8 C

Multi-format archive and compression library

Project mention: The XZ attack and timeline | dev.to | 2024-04-17

29. October 2021 At this point Jia Tan pops up, and the first thing we see from him is an innocuous patch to the xz repository, and while a lot of people believe he started out trying his luck with another library also known as libarchive, this is not the case, I would bet it’s more of a backup looking at the dates, being that there are a few days in between as shown in this commit.

casync

17 1,461 2.4 C

Content-Addressable Data Synchronization Tool

Project mention: We reduced conda’s index fetch bandwidth by 99% | /r/Python | 2023-04-25

For arbitrary state changes however, it's better to use something like casync. Note that there are a lot of tunables, implicit and explicit; for package indexing I would particularly think about "how is the index sorted" and "what is the desired chunk size".

InfluxDB

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Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
zpl

3 960 6.8 C

📐 Pushing the boundaries of simplicity
squashfs-tools

2 703 8.8 C

tools to create and extract Squashfs filesystems
fpart

5 213 7.9 C

Sort files and pack them into partitions
squashfs-tools-ng

7 187 8.4 C

A new set of tools and libraries for working with SquashFS images

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2024-04-17.