Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 10:14:21 -0700 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/tar ABOUT-NLS AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog ChangeLog.1 FREEBSD-Xlist FREEBSD-upgrade INSTALL NEWS PORTS README README-alpha THANKS TODO src/contrib/tar/doc fdl.texi freemanuals.texi getdate.texi header.texi tar.texi version.texi ... Message-ID: <450C30ED.7090901@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20060915180315.GB74735@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200609150804.k8F84O1H056038@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060915155912.GA71796@xor.obsecurity.org> <450AD508.10608@freebsd.org> <20060915180315.GB74735@xor.obsecurity.org>
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>>>> Remove vestiges of GNU tar. >>> >>>:( >>> >>>gtar is still much faster than bsdtar...oh well. >> >>What makes gtar so much faster than bsdtar? > > I don't know, tkientzle told me once he'd try to look at it, but I > don't think anything came of it. bsdtar doesn't overlap I/O and (de)compression. In some cases, this makes gtar faster. I still intend to experiment with async I/O and/or mmap to see if that addresses the difference. Tim
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