KTar patch to fix speed problems with tar ioslave

[Jan Schäfer]

Hi,

> On Sun February 8 2004 21:18, Jan Schäfer wrote:
> > Currently I decompress the entire file. That has to be done, because the
> > io slave does not know which file it has to return next.
>
> Would it help if it did know that? For http I have made "mget" which
> (although not used at the moment) allows to tell the slave to fetch
> multiple files and which leaves it to the slave to fetch them in an order
> most convenient for the slave.
>
> I could imagine that that could be a real help here, because that would
> potentially allow the slave to fetch the files in the order in which they
> are in the archive and extract them with a single decompression pass
> without storing the decompressed archive.
That would really help I think. I have seen this method, but it was rather 
undocumented and I did not find a way to use it.
Could you explain to me how I have to use this method and how I can tell the 
copy job to use the multiGet method instead of the get method?

Greetings,

	Jan