On Feb 13, 2012 11:15 PM, "Joerg Schilling" < joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote: > > Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 2012-02-13, Michael Orlitzky <mich...@orlitzky.com> wrote: > > > On 02/13/12 05:49, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > >> > > >> I've written a small Python program which outputs the file names in > > >> i-node order. If this is fed into tar or cpio nearly no seeks are > > >> required during copying. > > > > > > What makes you think the inodes are sequential on-disk? > > > > Even if the i-nodes are sequential on-disk, there's no reason to think > > that the data blocks associated with the inodes are in any particular > > order with respect to the i-nodes themselves. > > Correct, there is however a really fast method using "star -copy". > > This works because there are two decoupled processes, shared memory between > them and the fact that star reads names from directories in one big chunk. >
Honestly, that's news to me. Which package has star? Rgds,
