Re: [Bug-tar] GNU tar, star and BSD tar speed comparision +script

[Tim Kientzle]

Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> Tim Kientzle <address@hidden> ha escrit:
>
> > When reading uncompressed tar archives stored in regular files,
> > bsdtar uses lseek() operations to skip over the bodies of
> > files.
>
> As a side note, the similar feature in GNU tar is enabled using
> --seek option.

Oh, good.  It seemed so obvious at the time; if
noone else had ever done it, I'd be worried that
I missed some fatal problem.  ;-)

Is there a reason GNU tar doesn't enable this by
default for all regular files?

Cheers,

Tim Kientzle