Timeline for Faster (uncompressed) archiving tool than tar?
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| Jun 20, 2018 at 9:39 | comment | added | FUZxxl | Try using star instead of GNU tar. star has been tuned for performance and should improve this. | |
| Mar 15, 2017 at 0:05 | answer | added | Eric Hattemer | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 19:16 | history | edited | nippoo | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added hard-coded tape |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 19:09 | comment | added | ctrl-alt-delor | Modern PCs have terrible architecture. With older architectures, the software could tell the tape-drive to write the tar header, then tell the disk-drive a list of blocks to write directly to tape (not via the cpu). and x86 CPUs have terrible data throughput. | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 19:04 | review | First posts | |||
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| Sep 1, 2016 at 19:02 | history | asked | nippoo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |