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Archiving (catting files together) and compression are two different actions. This is true even in formats and zip or rar where the functions have always been a part of the same utility. They are separated in Unix because the Tape ARchiver wasn’t initially intended to produce a file on disk. The tar utility did eventually add compression but that’s not always desirable.

An archive of compressed files is just another archive regardless of the format.  Compressed files is also a bit vague a term.  Most video and music formats are compressed, so compressing them again doesn’t really add much value and can sometimes even produce larger sizes.

Reinstall shouldn’t be required but you’ll likely need to build a new initrd to ensure the boot process has the right drivers.

Starting to remember more about how this is done.  It’s been over 10 years since I had a similar setup working.  Are you VLANing first then slaving to the VLANS?

This post is a bit difficult to follow without being able to examine actual configurations. The bridged VLAN setup is a chain of configs in the RedHat configuration methodology. One of those configs is definitely clobbering the others but it seems you’re close. I’m sure a careful review of your work so far will be enough to find the error.