slow tar performance on fbsd5

[Tulio Guimarães da Silva]

Matthew D. Fuller wrote:

>On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 07:49:39PM +0200 I heard the voice of
>JG, and lo! it spake thus:
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>>Anyway, it's only a few secs difference, so the problem must be with
>>write. Any other hints? :)
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>Gentoo is using GNU tar, 5.4 is using bsdtar.  Try installing gtar on
>FreeBSD and see what the time is.
>
Tip: gtar is already available by default on complete installations at 
/usr/bin/gtar. ;) I didn´t notice much speed difference using it, 
though. :(