Re: [Pan-users] [Semi-OT] RAR and par2 files

[Ron Johnson]

On 2009-07-05 09:01, CSV4ME2 wrote:
> On Sunday 05 July 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > If rar v3 has ECC built-in, why are par files still used?
>
> Because (on Linux):
> - par2 is an excellent and higly customizable program/tool and free!,
> - par2 comes in a mulitithreaded variant, on a quad core is runs 4 times 
> faster, the linux rar is single threaded :-(.

Really?  par2cmdline v0.4 in Debian seems to be single-threaded, but 
now I found it.  I'll have to file a bug report with Debian to try 
to get it into the repository.

Anyway, it wouldn't currently help me much, since pan's eating one 
core (8 threads, I guess is the culprit).  Besides, a little shell 
"programming" lets me par-repair and unrar a set of related files 
(usually TV episodes) while I'm off doing something else like nethack.

> - par2 can be used on any file

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