Hi Denis, > (this is a copy of > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2014-11/msg00033.html > for which i didn't get any feedback)
My apologies! > I'm wondering whether we could modify checkpointing a little bit. > > Here is the motivation. [...] > It can be noted that although the checkpoint numbers (%u) are > multiples of the first one (10), the number of bytes (%T) are not. > Instead, those numbers are completely unrecognizable (to me). The motivation is pretty sound, indeed. > The following small patch does more or less this: Conceptually, I would agree with your earlier premise that the checkpoint should be displayed after I/O operation on the Nth record is performed. Please allow me some time to investigate deeper. Regards, Sergey
