"J.R. Heisey" <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I was trying to make some processes faster which use tar a bit on large > archives. > > I was able to use the command line options --use-compress-program pbzip2 and > that helped a lot. > > I was wondering if anyone has experimented using pthreads in the tar > implementation. I don't see any references in version 1.30 of the source or > readme I downloaded. Anyone discussed a strategy for using pthreads in > previous postings?
Star forks and runs two processes since approx. 30 years. The first process is for the filesystem I/O and the second process is for the archive I/O. between both, there is a ring buffer with configurable size that decouples both tasks. This helps to make star very fast. Implementing something like this in a TAR implementation that does not yet have support for it is highly complex. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sf.net/projects/schilytools/files/'
