Does anyone consider using Disk ARchives instead of Tape ARchives?

Nope.

I don't even use tarballs anymore, that's what 7zip is for. But you can't really get away from tarballs while working with anything open source, so I'm just glad 7zip will open tarballs as well.

Edit: I had a colorful rant here in a helpfully opt-in \

I tried it but didn't find it particularly compelling.
I prefer to use uncompressed tar (when the data isn't the kind of data that compresses well) or even just rsync -av straight from one filesystem to another.

This is largely a matter of "lowest common denominator" accessibility, I want my archives accessible on any Linux system without any need to install software, and an error in one part of the archive should have minimal effect on other files in the archive.

Are there any features you regard as especially superior to tar's functionality?

savageorange said:
Are there any features you regard as especially superior to tar's functionality?

DAR supports random access and also helps you not to mistakenly type "taur" instad of "tar".

felix_nermix said:
DAR supports random access and also helps you not to mistakenly type "taur" instad of "tar".

Taur balls store a different kind of data ;3

MyNameIsOver20charac said:
Taur balls store a different kind of data ;3

LMAO .