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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>
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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.
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> Adrian
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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.


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