On 01/06/2011 05:47 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I need to tar up a good 100 GiB of files, but tar is progressing at a > rate of about 1 MiB per second. Is there something, anything, faster? 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). -- Benjamin Franz