Joerg Schilling wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote: > >>> > 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? >> >> eix -e star > > To help star to buffer, give star a large fifo size that is up to haslf of > the > RAM in your machine, e.g. fs=1000m > > To make sure that star gives fast file creation (unpacking of archives) on > filesystems that do not support fast verified transactions, you need to make > star as "insecure" as other software to get comparable results, so add: > > -no-fsync > > Jörg >
The problem with star is that when I need to copy a large number of files, it isn't on the DVD I boot from. That's why most people use cp since it is on every bootable media I have ever booted. That includes the Gentoo bootable media. Since star is so good, why not get them to include it on the bootable media? Is it to large a package or what? Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
