[Starkit] Improving Tcl compression and performance

[Techentin, Robert W.]

From: Guaca Mole [mailto:guacamole1234 at yahoo.com] 
> 
> I am adding the files to the starkit using something
> similar to:
> 
> foreach f $files {
>   file copy $f $mountedStarkit
> }
> 
...
> 
> Any hints on how to reduce the size of the starkit or
> make the process faster so it is comparable to tar +
> gzip ?


Not sure about the speed, but compressing lots of little files takes up more
space than compressing a single large tar file.  Tar+gzip is just more
efficient.  I don't think you're going to get better space utilization out
of the starkit.

Bob
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