slow tar performance on fbsd5

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 07:49:39PM +0200 I heard the voice of
JG, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> Anyway, it's only a few secs difference, so the problem must be with
> write. Any other hints? :)

Gentoo is using GNU tar, 5.4 is using bsdtar.  Try installing gtar on
FreeBSD and see what the time is.


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