Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: multiply files in one (was GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman) | From | (Harvey J. Stein) | Date | 30 Mar 1999 10:34:45 +0200 |
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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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