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Date:      Wed, 24 Aug 2005 23:05:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Arne "Wörner" <arne_woerner@yahoo.com>
To:        JG <jarek@adeon.lublin.pl>, freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Re[2]: slow tar performance on fbsd5
Message-ID:  <20050825060538.81097.qmail@web30304.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <469999288.20050824235148@adeon.lublin.pl>

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--- JG <jarek@adeon.lublin.pl> wrote:
> >  Anyway, you could try the dd thing; something like
> > # dd if=mysql-m.tgz | tar -zxvf -
> >  and see if it makes any diference.
> 
> Not for me, I've very similar result. Is there way to do
> something
> reverse - extract tar file to stdout or sth. and then "dd" it to
> files?
> 
I say, what about
  time sh -c "dd if=mysql-m.tgz bs=1m | gunzip | tar xf -"
? :-)

-Arne


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