Re: [Bug-tar] make your tar archive even more anonymous

[Joerg Schilling]

Tim Kientzle <address@hidden> wrote:

> To be honest, I've considered altering bsdtar's directory-traversal
> code so that it always sorts the first 100 names in a directory
> and then leaves the rest unsorted.  That would give fully-sorted
> output for almost all cases and avoid the memory consumption
> (and slow performance) on very large directories.

100 directory entries looks a bit small.

average values seem to be 5..50 entries per directory, 100 is a number that 
looks too close to values from every day.

But in general: as directories usually don't have too many entries, it is not a 
problem to read a directory at once (and this is why star uses this method 
since 10 years).

Jörg

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