Package: tar
Version: 1.23-2
Severity: wishlist
Hi all!
Currently its only possible to compress tar files with multiple cores
using this command:
tar cf myfile.tar.bz2 --use-compress-prog=pbzip2 dir_to_compress/
with the standard compresstools its possible to write that way shorter:
E.g. tar cjf myfile.tar.bz2 dir_to_compress/
But this does not use multiple cores.
It should be possible that a standard option to the shown command for
using multiple cores, say, the parallel versions (pgzip/pbzip2)
An alternative would be using the multithreaded versions as default and
use the single core apps as fallback.
Gest Regards
Georg
--- System information. ---
Architecture: amd64
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
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Suggests (Version) | Installed
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bzip2 | 1.0.5-4
ncompress |
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