Hi.
I can't find any mention of this elsewhere, so I would like to report
this as a bug - or may be an expected result, just not documented
anywhere (?).
I have found that a large exclude-from=file negatively affects the speed
of tar.
This dataset consists of about 2,4 million files, and i
Jørn Skog Odberg wrote:
> The result are not linear with the numbers of excludes, but it shows
> that each exclude-line makes a negative impact on performance.
People who are interested in performance usually use star.
The recent version 1.6 is in schilytools.
Jörg
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