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CAR - COPY-ON-WRITE ARCHIVE

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car is a tool that creates and extracts archives without copying data. It uses file system capabilities to reflink data to and from the archive. car requires a file system with reflink support, like BtrFS or XFS. It uses syntax that mimics the tar tool.