Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:39:40 -0400 From: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMP Version of tar Message-ID: <506C866C.3050509@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-Vmom1T%2B_=osB=OFFO-eBDSL2jv7WQiNhBExwhWWPy45cHGg@mail.gmail.com> References: <5069C9FC.6020400@brandonfa.lk> <87549776-9051-4B4B-8D53-DAE6D51C2A94@kientzle.com> <20121002083634.3103fe958508a4026384ac96@yamagi.org> <CAJ-Vmom1T%2B_=osB=OFFO-eBDSL2jv7WQiNhBExwhWWPy45cHGg@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 10/02/2012 03:06 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > .. please keep in mind that embedded platforms (a) don't necessarily > benefit from it, and (b) have a very small footprint. Bloating out the > compression/archival tools for the sake of possible SMP support will > make me very, very sad. > > > > Adrian > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Someone might want to ask if parallelizing tar is even possible. tar is meant to serially write to tape. It should not be possible possible to parallelize that operation. I can imagine parallelizing compression algorithms, but I cannot imagine parallelizing tar. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQbIZyAAoJECDuEZm+6Exk7isQAJEDfEZtmqYDYXQ3jm1EPRj9 m2yE+rK9oqTfOL4ifzQ85qJg+0AMaK7Oj5ZEN7yzXl4zjHKDG0CG5cM77lPQmGIs FAkn6v1lp2FUfqC6ooDjZmspMHoYAbr7rgLblqr4YEk7NaQOiNhg9kSGnD2YuRVE lwqF6oGw69LqcOUZ85mHiWeMgP3crZGrUkb8r4BLBNWF4rKK+frmnqoRYXcAqKs2 yhaf6Yz4R0xwUdAQc1Vp6nDzqrpvA053FCCYqfvky3CNdpIbbrzDhQ42vmrUprD+ YDvryOjCWfbuNaiECb6IqJY12JIBF+BSwYBvuXmPX/0B8qKbBrbN5bCGC7pc/4SE wewHDzWgV7nZ15CTMbpmk7LduLRtiMpjS9fy6Iwpd8l7qBb9CUt+05K3vnq+cwmp uwiKg79jFsK0ZgH9NK0hqsGZrCNzr+KWp0wfBrtcx8uHoLSlduaZMCnGyQDlZomb Y1PS9zUR16fScqUTk/I7Fbn+vSOcmkWar0nsKxEDaZ+eNfdETG1Sqdf8fg7j6QYn Uv0tE2f+D0e2Gzy6VLa7VLVDnllxt0ftR2PKqweM8usG3YrrptCC4QJbFdahCguY kANKI4bRIXw1Y8/hs9ztS3Ly7QGkYep5USDh4n6EfQXBZeaG0I8beRl5+Sqnit9+ +8UvpYBIGayyy+Y92bH6 =m1kV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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