Talk:Improve Pacman Performance
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>> This will attempt to put all the small files together in one (physical) location on the hard disk so that the hard disk head does not have to move so much when accessing all the packages. This method is safe.
Who said that tar/untar will place files together??? Read searching empty space algorithms used to put new file in most filesystems. Actualy, may be pacman-optimize work properly on FAT...
sergej 08:22, 3 October 2007 (EDT)