The tar archive format, its extensions, and why GNU tar extracts in quadratic time - Mort's RamblingsDate: 2022-07-23 Git: https://gitlab.com/mort96/blog/blob/published/content/00000-home/00014-tar.md (If you're here from Google and just need help with tar being slow: If you trust the tar archive, extract with -P to make tar fast.) A couple of days ago, I had a 518GiB tar.gz file (1.1 TiB uncompressed) that I had to extract. At first, GNU tar was doing a great job, chewing through the tar.gz at a
