Re: Tar so slow! Is there anything faster?

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On 01/06/2011 05:47 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I need to tar up a good 100 GiB of files, but tar is progressing at a
> rate of about 1 MiB per second. Is there something, anything, faster?

tar is normally screaming fast unless you use bzip2 compression (or gzip 
compression on an underpowered CPU).

Provide details: What are you tarring, how are you invoking tar, what 
hardware are you running on (hard drive types, cpu type, etc).

-- 
Benjamin Franz
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