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Date:      Wed, 3 Oct 2012 22:52:18 -0700
From:      Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com>
To:        Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SMP Version of tar
Message-ID:  <8241FA15-1F31-46EC-95D0-9AB9ECEB9832@kientzle.com>
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> Someone might want to ask if parallelizing tar is even possible.

Answer:  Yes.  Here's a simple parallel version of tar:

   find . | cpio -o -H ustar | gzip > outfile.tgz

There are definitely other approaches.


Tim




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