[Bug-tar] Re: feature request: support for multithreaded lzma(2) compression

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello Robert,

Robert Riemann wrote:
> what about multithreaded compression with tar? Is anything related to
> this already planned?

You can easily achieve this using "--use-compress-program=plzip".

http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/plzip.html
"Plzip is a massively parallel (multi-threaded), lossless data 
compressor based on the LZMA algorithm, with very safe integrity 
checking and a user interface similar to the one of gzip or bzip2".


Regards,
Antonio.