Archives often have checksums, align files in a way conducive to continuous read...

		lazide on Nov 10, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hop: Faster than unzip and tar at reading individu... Archives often have checksums, align files in a way conducive to continuous reading which can be great performance wise in some cases (and like zip, also random read/write), and can provide grouping and logical/semantic validation that is hard to do on a ‘bunch of files’ without messing it up.

FWIW, IPFS does all of that by default (maybe outside of the continuous reading part).