diff --git a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/tar/TarArchiver.java b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/tar/TarArchiver.java
index 2091eaf8..207e7b79 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/tar/TarArchiver.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/archiver/tar/TarArchiver.java
@@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ private OutputStream compress(TarCompressionMethod tarCompressionMethod, final O
             return new ZstdCompressorOutputStream(bufferedOutputStream(ostream));
         }
 
-        return ostream;
+        return bufferedOutputStream(ostream);
     }
 
     @Override