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

[Tim Kientzle]

Lars Stoltenow wrote:
> 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.

This was discussed about two years ago:

http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg01602.html