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 <
wwarner42@cox.net>
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