From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 12 01:05:33 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2A3F16A403; Mon, 12 Mar 2007 01:05:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B154F13C45B; Mon, 12 Mar 2007 01:05:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E8081A4D83; Sun, 11 Mar 2007 18:05:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C0FE551401; Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:05:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:05:32 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Tim Kientzle Message-ID: <20070312010532.GA21000@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200703111036.l2BAaha6031394@repoman.freebsd.org> <45F46291.4090209@freebsd.org> <20070312001026.GA20000@xor.obsecurity.org> <45F4A1F4.4060703@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45F4A1F4.4060703@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: current@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: BSDtar performance vs GNUtar (Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/tar Makefile bsdtar.c bsdtar.h bsdtar_platform.h config_freebsd.h getdate.y matching.c read.c tree.c util.c write.c src/usr.bin/tar/test config.sh test-acl.sh test-basic.sh test-deep-dir.sh test-flags.sh test-nodump.sh ...) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 01:05:33 -0000 --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 05:42:28PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote: > >>Bsdtar should now be considerably faster than before. > >>I'd appreciate any feedback ... > > > >The first archive was created with bsdtar (tar cvf ports.tar ports) > >which made gtar bitch a bit .... >=20 > Which version of gtar were you using? >=20 > In my testing, there's a small but definite slowdown > from gtar 1.13 to 1.15 to 1.16. 1.16.1, latest from ports. > >... gtar bitch a bit about unknown options (SCHILY.*) ... >=20 > bsdtar should probably warn about unknown options as well; > I'll have to look into that. (It's a little tricky because > libarchive is set up to only return one error for any > one operation. I might have to generalize that.) This was an archive created by bsdtar, so they shouldn't have been unknown to it :) > Now that gtar is following standards, I wonder if > they'll adopt some of the extensions developed > by other people? (Such as Joerg Schilling's solid > work on integrating file flags and ACL support into > pax format.) That would be nice. Kris --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFF9KdcWry0BWjoQKURAkMOAJ4p4L+m+XOln2hhk3EpfP6nIfzRmgCgm1IC ClfmnCPyKSLJj89uATtUlqs= =wYog -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA--