Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: > Jesper Krogh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Can you give us the time for doing a tar to /dev/null of the fileset. >> >> time tar cf /dev/null /path/to/maildir >> >> Then we have a feeling about the "actual read time" for the file of >> the filesystem. > > if you're using GNU tar, it will *not* read the files if you dump to > /dev/null. it will simply stat the files as necessary (you can check > this with strace if you like.)
Thanks The numers actually surprised me when posted. I usually do a tar cf - /path | pv > /dev/null pv prints the speed of the stream, so I dont have to wait for it to complete to get a feeling. > use /dev/zero to avoid this optimisation. Thank, nice tip. -- Jesper ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
