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SubjectRe: multiply files in one (was GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman)
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Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> writes:

> I wouldn't bother to compress - just putting all the files into a
> ``tarball'' will compress them quite nicely because of the lack of
> fragmentation. Compression isn't the point, disk access / file
> read is the point. For a large group of small files I want 2 disk
> accesses (inode + tarball) for all files, instead of 2/file.

How's that? First of all, tar pads out each file according to the
blocking factor, and secondly, tar has a rather verbose header in
front of each file.

--
Harvey J. Stein
BFM Financial Research
hjstein@bfr.co.il

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