Re: [Bug-tar] checkpointing details

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Hi Denis,

> (this is a copy of 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2014-11/msg00033.html
> for which i didn't get any feedback)

My apologies!

> I'm wondering whether we could modify checkpointing a little bit.
> 
> Here is the motivation.
[...]
> It can be noted that although the checkpoint numbers (%u) are
> multiples of the first one (10), the number of bytes (%T) are not.
> Instead, those numbers are completely unrecognizable (to me).

The motivation is pretty sound, indeed.

> The following small patch does more or less this:

Conceptually, I would agree with your earlier premise that the
checkpoint should be displayed after I/O operation on the Nth
record is performed.  Please allow me some time to investigate deeper.


Regards,
Sergey