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From: | Tim Kientzle |
Subject: | Re: [Bug-tar] GNU tar, star and BSD tar speed comparision +script |
Date: | Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:03:11 -0700 |
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Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
Tim Kientzle <address@hidden> ha escrit:When reading uncompressed tar archives stored in regular files, bsdtar uses lseek() operations to skip over the bodies of files.As a side note, the similar feature in GNU tar is enabled using --seek option.
Oh, good. It seemed so obvious at the time; if noone else had ever done it, I'd be worried that I missed some fatal problem. ;-) Is there a reason GNU tar doesn't enable this by default for all regular files? Cheers, Tim Kientzle
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