* Florian Weimer <f...@deneb.enyo.de>, 2004-12-23, 13:03:
tar should sort the data returned by readdir() before opening any files (or calling stat). Sorting files by name (or especially inode number) will greatly increase performance on directory-hashing file systems such as ext3.
The --sort option was added upstream in 1.28, so I guess this should be closed.
-- Jakub Wilk
