Hi, Richard, just to let you know, I have continued to use sqlar rather than tar.gz for my personal use.
I found a problem with recursive symlinks. For example, I have a copy of sqliteodbc-0.9994.tar.gz which has a symlink source -> . Note, the Gnome Archive Manager has a nice arrow icon, but seems to otherwise ignore it. So, I get directories with .../source/source/ forever I had a similar issue with some math software I use, called Sage. ( http://www.sagemath.org/) To fix it, I did a minimal change, stat( to lstat( within the add_file function. I didn't have the need to recover the symlink from the sqlar file, but others may. I then did a volume test, on my laptop, which is an Intel i7 about 3 years old. The Sage software is sage-7.4, has 114,000 files and takes up 6.9G. Sqlar took just short of 13 minutes to run against it, and the resultant sqlar file is 2.5G. The sqlar -lv against the file took 50 seconds to produce the file list which I piped to a file that was 16.9M. However, I normally just read the "sqlar" table. regs, Kev _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
