SMP Version of tar

[Richard Yao]

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
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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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