SMP Version of tar

[Eitan Adler]

On 1 October 2012 12:51, Brandon Falk <bfalk_bsd at brandonfa.lk> wrote:
> I would be willing to work on a SMP version of tar (initially just gzip or
> something).
>
> I don't have the best experience in compression, and how to multi-thread it,
> but I think I would be able to learn and help out.
>
> Note: I would like to make this for *BSD under the BSD license. I am aware
> that there are already tools to do this (under GPL), but I would really like
> to see this existent in the FreeBSD base.
>
> Anyone interested?

Tim Kientzle (cced) is the person to talk with. Try to keep questions
on the mailing list with him CCed so we all learn. :)



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Eitan Adler