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
On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 09:58, Jonathan Hohle wrote:
> you might want to try this trick i found on the gentoo-wiki a few
> weeks ago ( http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Fast_Copy ).
>
> instead of doing:
> cp -v file destination
> you can do
> tar -cf - file | tar -C destination -xvf -
>
> read the wiki for more information and how to do it over ssh.
>
> Jon
> <><
>
> On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 09:53:21 -0700, ShieldX <shieldx@mindspring.com> wrote:
> > I'm using the stock 2.4 i386 kernel that comes with woody,
> >
> > I'm thinking it's a kernel problem as well, but don't want to commit
> > to a sarge net install 'upgrade' (over a 56k line, *ack*) without being sure
> > if it will help at all.
> >
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