slow tar performance on fbsd5

[Arne Wörner]

--- JG <jarek at adeon.lublin.pl> wrote:
> >  Anyway, you could try the dd thing; something like
> > # dd if=mysql-m.tgz | tar -zxvf -
> >  and see if it makes any diference.
> 
> Not for me, I've very similar result. Is there way to do
> something
> reverse - extract tar file to stdout or sth. and then "dd" it to
> files?
> 
I say, what about
  time sh -c "dd if=mysql-m.tgz bs=1m | gunzip | tar xf -"
? :-)

-Arne


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