Lars Stoltenow wrote:
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 06:29:04PM +0300, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:The --seek (-n) command line option instructs tar to use lseeks instead of reads. Use it.Then probably GNU tar should detect automatically if a file is seekable or not.
This was discussed about two years ago: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01602.html
