On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 11:05:52AM -0700, Steve Crawford wrote: > In your scenario, what about using "cp -l" (or "ln") instead? Since the > hard-link it is only creating a new pointer, it will be very fast and > save a bunch of disk IO on your server and it doesn't appear that the > tempdir is for much other than organizing purposes anyway.
Note that that will only work if you're creating the link on the same filesystem, and having /tmp and your data in the same filesystem isn't such a hot idea. -- Decibel!, aka Jim Nasby [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)
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