Re: [Bug-tar] Speeding up GNU tar file I/O ?

[Joerg Schilling]

"Kaveh R. Ghazi" <address@hidden> wrote:

>  > Check star for comparison and you will see that wihout using relative
>  > paths, it is possible to be faster than GNU tar and with star you are
>  > even able to compare:
>  > 
>  >    star -c -time . > /dev/null
>  > 
>  > uses long paths, while:
>  > 
>  >      star -c -time -find . > /dev/null
>  > 
>  > uses short filenames.
>
> I wanted to try this for myself on solaris2.7, so I compiled the
> latest "release" version of star that I found, star-1.4.3, and with

Just use the latest release and not something that is many years old.

> Then I tried compiling the prerelease version 1.5a70 to see if -find
> works there but it doesn't build a star binary.  I followed the
> README.solaris instructions, namely eliminating /usr/ucb from my path,
> setting LC_ALL and using /usr/ccs/bin/make.  It runs without error
> configuring and building stuff but I can't see any star executable in
> there.  (I compiled star with gcc-3.4 in case that matters.)

Read the documentation or watch the make outout,
it of course builds a usable binary, it is just called 
'star_fat' as it includes support for the CLI of:

-       GNU tar

-       cpio

-       tar

-       Sun tar

Jörg

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