BSDtar performance vs GNUtar (Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/tar Makefile bsdtar.c bsdtar.h bsdtar_platform.h config_freebsd.h getdate.y matching.c read.c tree.c util.c write.c src/usr.bin/tar/test config.sh test-acl.sh test-basic.sh test-deep-dir.sh test-flags.sh test-nodump.sh ...)

[Tim Kientzle]

>>>... gtar bitch a bit about unknown options (SCHILY.*) ...
>>
>>bsdtar should probably warn about unknown options as well;
>>I'll have to look into that.
> 
> This was an archive created by bsdtar, so they shouldn't have been
> unknown to it :)

Yes, but the GNU tar folks, in particular, have
introduced a bunch of new options just in the
last year, so bsdtar is increasingly likely to
see options it doesn't know.  For example, I
should add support for the new GNU tar sparse
file format soon.

Tim