[CentOS] block level changes at the file system level?

Mon Jul 7 22:48:46 UTC 2014
Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>

On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 11:56:08PM +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> On 07/07/2014 10:54 PM, Markus Falb wrote:
> > 
> > On 07.Jul.2014, at 14:53, Ljubomir Ljubojevic <centos at plnet.rs> wrote:
> > 
> >> On 07/07/2014 02:35 PM, SilverTip257 wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic <centos at plnet.rs> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I am inclined to use xz utils as opposed to 7zip since 7zip comes from a
> >>> 3rd party repo.
> >>>
> >>
> >> check needs to be made if xz supports multitrheading like pk7zip.
> > 
> > No, it think it does not.
> > There is a threads option but in the manpage is stated
> > 
> > ...
> > Multithreaded compression and decompression are not implemented yet, so this option has no  effect  for
> >               now.
> > ...
> > 
> OH, that's a bummer. Thanks, now i do not have to waste time on
> experimenting.

Have you seen pigz? similar to gzip but multithreaded.

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