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diff --git a/FAQ.in b/FAQ.in index 6112aa02bb..32678a2f0a 100644 --- a/FAQ.in +++ b/FAQ.in @@ -860,6 +860,20 @@ possible to do development with old static libraries on a glibc 2.1 system. This add-on is still in development. You can get it from <URL> but please keep in mind that it is experimental. +?? Why is extracting files via tar so slow? + +{AJ} Extracting of tar archives might be quite slow since tar has to look up +userid and groupids and doesn't cache negative results. If you have nis or +nisplus in your /etc/nsswitch.conf for the passwd and/or group database, +each file extractions needs a network connection. There are two possible +solutions: + +- do you really need NIS/NIS+ (some Linux distributions add by default + nis/nisplus even if it's not needed)? If not, just remove the entries. + +- if you need NIS/NIS+, use the Name Service Cache Daemon nscd that comes + with glibc 2.1. + ? Source and binary incompatibilities, and what to do about them ?? I expect GNU libc to be 100% source code compatible with |