Re: [Bug-tar] GNU TAR or STAR -- speed comparision

[Joerg Schilling]

Tim Kientzle <address@hidden> wrote:

> > star is definitely much faster than GNU tar ,-)
> > If you know a fater tar implementation than star, send the name,
> > a test and a bug report!
>
> In my testing, star didn't perform very well extracting large
> archives to memory-backed disk.  (10% to 15% slower than either
> bsdtar or GNU tar.)

If you like to compare this, you would need to either call star as "tar"
or tell star to be as insecure as GNU tar is.

So test again with "star -no-fsync ..."

Jörg

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