RE: [Bug-tar] Checkpoint options does not work as per documentati on

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Armistead, Jason <address@hidden> wrote:

> Actually I would prefer if the --checkpoint option worked as it was
> documented.

Actually it never worked this way: tar --checkpoint always printed
a diagnostic message each 10 records. Paxutils version of tar
used to print a dot at every 10h record processed.

I agree, however, that printing only directory names could be a useful
option.
 
> I would prefer
> that at --checkpoint either prints each directory name as it goes, or that
> you could do something like --checkpoint=X, where X represents the number of
> blocks between checkpoint messages, with a more reasonable default of at
> least 100 (but maybe 1000).

Yes, it is a good idea.

Thank you.

-Sergey