Yea the logic was sound enough for it to peek my skepticism so I gave it a couple of quick tests. For some reason I didn't think firing up two copies of tar and piping them together would be faster the one cp. but it was worth a test and now I am more informed than before. -Bill On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 13:07, Jonathan Hohle wrote: > sorry, hadn't tried it myself, the logic was sound, though. > > Jon > <>< > > On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 11:43:06 -0700, Bill Warner wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 10:58, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > > On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Bill Warner wrote: > > > > > > > This doesn't seem to work for me. I use cp -a, and dropped the v from > > > > the tar to suppress output. here is the outputs of the two different > > > > commands: > > > > > > > > wwarner:/usr# cd > > > > wwarner:~# cd /usr > > > > wwarner:/usr# du -sh lib > > > > 673M lib > > > > wwarner:/usr# time cp -a lib /tmp > > > > > > > > real 2m59.519s > > > > user 0m0.129s > > > > sys 0m4.279s > > > > wwarner:/usr# rm -rf /tmp/lib > > > > wwarner:/usr# time tar -cf - lib | tar -C /tmp -xf - > > > > > > > > real 3m2.839s > > > > user 0m0.362s > > > > sys 0m5.703s > > > > > > You say it didn't work for you. But you didn't show us that it didn't > > > work. It appears like it did work. > > > > OK, to varying degrees of worked. If you mean by worked the files > > copied, then yes it worked, I ment the cp was faster than the tar, > > opposite of what the original claimed. > > > > > > > > -- > > Bill Warner > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > -- Bill Warner --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss