Automatic detection of seekable archives.

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-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2009-08-08
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2009-09-08
 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
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@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ When listing or extracting archives, the actual record size is
 reported only if the archive is read from a device (as opposed
 to regular files and pipes).
 
+* Seekable archives
+
+When a read-only operation (e.g. --list or --extract) is requested
+on a regular file, tar attemtps to speed up accesses by using lseek.
+
 * New command line option `--warning'
 
 The `--warning' command line option allows to suppress or enable