Ben Taylor wrote: >> 3a. using 'tar xzf pkg.tar.gz' is about 30% faster than 'gunzip >> pkg.tar.gz && tar xf pkg.tar'. Changing this would benefit everyone. > > you've tested this? There's probably no harm in doing this, though > we have to handle this differently for bz2 version. (Though adding > bzip2 support to gtar if it isn't already there would not be difficult. > I added it to compress years ago to support bzip2 flar archives > since changing the lib stuff for flar installs was much too complicated)
how about "<uncompression tool> -c pkg.tar.<suffix> | tar xf > pkg" or something like that? how does that compare to the other two variants? if favourable, one could use that and save people the effort of adapting gtar... >> 4. regarding the remark about limitations, I don't think it's a real >> problem, we're already limiting ourselves much more in the choice of >> compiler and other things. It's reasonable to expect people running >> osol and S10u8 to use ZFS. > > yes. obviously, I would not implement this as the default, since some > folks on S10 might be using ufs, or other file systems. lets not forget that while not the default, ufs still works fine on OpenSolaris too :-) cheers Michael -- Michael Schuster http://blogs.sun.com/recursion Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion'
