On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 15:54, Jerry Franz <jfr...@freerun.com> wrote: >> tar is normally screaming fast unless you use bzip2 compression (or gzip >> compression on an underpowered CPU). >> >> Provide details: What are you tarring, how are you invoking tar, what >> hardware are you running on (hard drive types, cpu type, etc). >> > > Thanks, Jerry, I was in fact using bzip2: > $ tar -cjf dcl-2010-12-07.tbz dcl-2010-12-07/
bzip2 will slow down the operation. If you don't really need compressed than simply do "tar cf <tar file> <dir/file list>" -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
