[Bug-tar] Each line in exclude-from=file causes slowdown

2019-02-21 Thread Jørn Skog Odberg
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

Re: [Bug-tar] Each line in exclude-from=file causes slowdown

2019-02-21 Thread Joerg Schilling
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 -- EMail:jo...@schily.ne