Package: tar
Version: 1.23-2.1
Severity: normal
File: /bin/tar
Hi,
when extracting files from a tarball the resulting size is known
beforehand. This should be communicated to the filesystem using
posix_fallocate() to allow the filesystem to place the file better,
idealy as one continious block.
MfG
Goswin
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (666, 'unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-rc7-xen-1 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages tar depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-4 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
tar recommends no packages.
Versions of packages tar suggests:
ii bzip2 1.0.5-5 high-quality block-sorting file co
pn ncompress <none> (no description available)
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