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Re: Default tar revisited


From: "Justin C. Sherrill" <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:53:28 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, September 18, 2006 8:19 pm, Peter Avalos wrote:
> Since I upgraded to the newest version of bsdtar, I figure that it's a
> good time to revisit the default tar discussion from May 2005.  What do
> people think about switching to bsdtar so we don't need to maintain
> multiple tars?
>
> Here's the May 2005 thread:
> http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2005-05/msg00009.html

Gets my vote to change.  In a lazy bit of local benchmarking, my system
sees bsdtar running slightly faster.

bsdtar doesn't appear to handle tape (yet), but I don't know how much of
an issue that is right now, and tape backup seems to be experiencing a
slow fade, in any case...




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