On 10/02/2012 03:06 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > .. please keep in mind that embedded platforms (a) don't necessarily > benefit from it, and (b) have a very small footprint. Bloating out the > compression/archival tools for the sake of possible SMP support will > make me very, very sad. > > > > Adrian > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Someone might want to ask if parallelizing tar is even possible. tar is meant to serially write to tape. It should not be possible possible to parallelize that operation. I can imagine parallelizing compression algorithms, but I cannot imagine parallelizing tar.
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