Re: Slow tar ? (2.1.129pre1 and pre4)

Michael K Vance (mkv102@psu.edu)
Wed, 18 Nov 1998 10:18:06 -0500

Tom Vier wrote:
>
> i dunno if this'll help, but a while ago i heard something about tar
> and nis, and that removing nis and nis+ stuff from /etc/nsswitch.conf
> would speed it up.

As noted previously, this is the magic bullet.

Many thanks,

m.

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