pag@hao.UUCP (Peter Gross) (11/03/84)
Index: /usr/src/bin/tar.c 4.2BSD Description: 4.2bsd tar seems patched together from the older v7 and 4.1 versions. The old versions did all their disk I/O using 512 byte blocks.. On 4.2 this is suboptimal and makes tar much slower than need be. Repeat-By: write a tar tape of large files or extract a tar tape containing large files Fix: Should be made to use st.blksize to set optimal block size for disk read/writes. Unfortunately this entails a lot of rewriting. --peter gross hao!pag