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Re: [Bug-tar] [Fwd: Bug#543913: "tar tf" uses read() instead of lseek(),

From: Lars Stoltenow
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] [Fwd: Bug#543913: "tar tf" uses read() instead of lseek(), making it slow]
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:52:35 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) 
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 06:29:04PM +0300, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> The --seek (-n) command line option instructs tar to use lseeks
> instead of reads. Use it.

Then probably GNU tar should detect automatically if a file is seekable
or not.
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