Default tar revisited

[Justin C. Sherrill]

On Mon, September 18, 2006 8:19 pm, Peter Avalos wrote:
> Since I upgraded to the newest version of bsdtar, I figure that it's a
> good time to revisit the default tar discussion from May 2005.  What do
> people think about switching to bsdtar so we don't need to maintain
> multiple tars?
>
> Here's the May 2005 thread:
> http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2005-05/msg00009.html

Gets my vote to change.  In a lazy bit of local benchmarking, my system
sees bsdtar running slightly faster.

bsdtar doesn't appear to handle tape (yet), but I don't know how much of
an issue that is right now, and tape backup seems to be experiencing a
slow fade, in any case...