On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 15:54, Jerry Franz jfranz@freerun.com wrote:
tar is normally screaming fast unless you use bzip2 compression (or gzip compression on an underpowered CPU).
Provide details: What are you tarring, how are you invoking tar, what hardware are you running on (hard drive types, cpu type, etc).
Thanks, Jerry, I was in fact using bzip2: $ tar -cjf dcl-2010-12-07.tbz dcl-2010-12-07/
I don't really need compressed, just archived (moving Linux files via FAT-formatted external hard drive) so I ditched the j option and it's now screaming along at almost 80 MiB/sec. Thanks!