Subject: Re: FYI: upgrading GNU tar
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 10/11/2002 17:58:19
[ On Friday, October 11, 2002 at 17:21:12 (-0400), Christos Zoulas wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: FYI: upgrading GNU tar
>
> Ok, thanks. Do you think we should adopt OpenBSD's blocksize?

I've never actually made use of it and so I'm not sure if it's really a
significant performance improvement or not.

It might be useful for compatability purposes, but beyond that I don't know.

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