parallel decompression using pigz ?

[gadh]

i use v2.4.2 and compressed in parallel using pigz. now in the decompression process i see it uses gzip which does not support parallel. can it use pigz in decompress also ?

[megastep]

gzip is the more widely available command to uncompress the archive in this case. However we could add some code to find an alternative pigz if that is a functional equivalent.

[diekleinekuh]

That would be really nice. I tried forcing pigz with --untar-extra --use-compress-program=pigz when decompressing but could not make it work.

[megastep]

gzip is currently run separately from tar so the extra argument would have no effect. We could add some code to check for the presence of pigz as an alternative and call it instead when available.