[Gnu-arch-users] Re: baz format archives in tla

[Andy Tai]

On 4/4/06, Miles Bader <address@hidden> wrote:
> Right, but what effect does that have?  I don't spend a lot of time
> actually looking inside archive directories, so from a user perspective it
> would seem to not make a difference.  Does it affect the efficiency of tla
> operations at all (by _far_ the biggest problem with tla is speed)?
> -Miles
I have no benchmark numbers, but the baz format should be more
efficient due to its less number of directory metadata accesses
comparing to the tla format, IMHO.