native PEA format. 7-Zip includes read support for .msi, cpio and xar, plus Apple's dmg/HFS disk images and the deb/.rpm package distribution formats; beta versions (9.07 onwards) have full support for the LZMA2-compressed .xz format. See also Comparison of archive formats Lossless compression benchmarks Comparison of file systems List of archive formats List of file systems References Further reading Maximum Compression site benchmarking compressors for several filetypes (text, executable, jpeg etc.). Kingsley G. Morse Jr., "Compression Tools Compared", Linux Journal, issue 137, September 2005 Patrick Schmid, Achim Roos, (March 10, 2010) "Four Compression And Archiving Solutions Compared", Tom's Hardware File archivers