Re: Tar so slow! Is there anything faster?

[Arun Khan <knura9@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 15:54, Jerry Franz <jfranz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 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).
>>
>
> Thanks, Jerry, I was in fact using bzip2:
> $ tar -cjf dcl-2010-12-07.tbz dcl-2010-12-07/

bzip2 will slow down the operation.  If you don't really need
compressed than simply do "tar cf  <tar file>  <dir/file list>"

-- Arun Khan
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