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Date:      Mon, 8 Oct 2012 08:38:33 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Brandon Falk <bfalk_bsd@brandonfa.lk>
Subject:   Re: SMP Version of tar
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1210080838170.3664@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <324B736D-8961-4E44-A212-2ECF3E60F2A0@kientzle.com>
References:  <5069C9FC.6020400@brandonfa.lk> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1210071859430.15957@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <324B736D-8961-4E44-A212-2ECF3E60F2A0@kientzle.com>

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>> gzip cannot - it is single stream.
>
> gunzip commutes with cat, so gzip
> compression can be multi-threaded
> by compressing separate blocks and
> concatenating the result.

right. but resulting file format must be different.



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