On 5/13/25 10:45 PM, matthew green wrote:
netbsd-8 uses pax-as-tar. netbsd-9 and newer has bsdtar-as-tar. is this the real difference? how dos "pax -r" work where tar is fast?
One major difference between the two is that pax-as-tar calls external gzip/bzip2/xz for compression handling where as bsdtar uses the library functions. So for compressed input/output, the accounting will be different.
Joerg