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Comment on Thoughts on Cyber Weapons by Hossein Mehrara

Hossein Mehrara — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 09:57:32 +0000

Thank you so much for such nice Article, It’d be glad to be permitted to share it in my web.

Good Job

Comment on Multi-threaded gzip by Babak Farrokhi

Babak Farrokhi — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 04:59:17 +0000

I am afraid it does not.

Comment on make.conf in FreeBSD by Behzad

Behzad — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 13:47:03 +0000

Thanks Babak!

Comment on From Linux to FreeBSD – Part 1 by Kamyar Navidan

Kamyar Navidan — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 07:23:31 +0000

By the way, do you know of any cheap FreeBSD vps hosting that can be ordered from Iran? Something to try out FreeBSD while having a fast net connection.

Comment on From Linux to FreeBSD – Part 1 by Kamyar Navidan

Kamyar Navidan — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 06:56:42 +0000

Hopefully you’re going to write more about Linux to FreeBSD transition. I personally would be very grateful if you could explain Ports/Packages system in layman terms. There are good in-depth guides on Internet but it always seems to me that they assume that reader have some prior knowledge about the subject.

It’s good to see you back in your blogger capacity. Keep it up.

Comment on Multi-threaded gzip by Babak Farrokhi

Babak Farrokhi — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:34:45 +0000

For CentOS 5.x x64 I believe you may use the RPM from here: http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/epel/5/x86_64/pigz-2.1.6-1.el5.x86_64.html

As for tar, I am not sure if any parallel implementation exists.

Comment on Multi-threaded gzip by Babak Farrokhi

Babak Farrokhi — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:33:52 +0000

Well, pigz will do that.

Comment on Multi-threaded gzip by John M

John M — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:22:02 +0000

Speaking of tar are you aware of any parallel implementation of tar ?

Comment on Multi-threaded gzip by John M

John M — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:18:29 +0000

excuse me… I meant gzip…not tar…

Comment on Multi-threaded gzip by John M

John M — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:17:52 +0000

Ok great, just want to be sure. I found another archive tool that was multithreaded but due to the nature of the way the archives were made it would only extract archives made via single thread in a single thread mode.

Here it is:
http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/126412

“One caveat with pbunzip2 is that it will only use multiple cores if the bzip2 compressed file was created with pbzip2″

So pigz is a drop in replacement for tar? I’m an above average novice with Linux. Any info anywhere to help me get it installed on Centos 5 x64 ?