Re: [PLUG] File copy method that is twice as fast as "cp -a".

2001-06-07 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Russell" == Russell Senior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Karl" == Karl M Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Russell> c) if I am doing this between machines, I can pipe it through ssh Russell> thusly: Russell> tar -C /srcdir -clf - . | ssh targethost 'tar -C /ta

Re: [PLUG] File copy method that is twice as fast as "cp -a".

2001-06-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 09:30:03AM -0700, Russell Senior wrote: > > "Karl" == Karl M Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Karl> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # time (cd /usr/local/src/ && tar pcf - > Karl> cvs.gnome.org) | (cd /mnt/tmp/src/ && tar pxf -) > > Just for your reference, there is a tar

Re: [PLUG] File copy method that is twice as fast as "cp -a".

2001-06-03 Thread Russell Senior
> "Karl" == Karl M Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Karl> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # time (cd /usr/local/src/ && tar pcf - Karl> cvs.gnome.org) | (cd /mnt/tmp/src/ && tar pxf -) Just for your reference, there is a tar option that makes your shell construction much easier: tar -C /usr/local

Re: File copy method that is twice as fast as "cp -a".

2001-06-03 Thread Alvin Oga
hiya karl yes !! buffer is neat little program... forgot all about it... and "good test proceedure"... at least easy enough to understand... and to tweek it more... one could change(increment) the default rsize and wsize for the mount options - the days of slow tape drives...hummm...

File copy method that is twice as fast as "cp -a".

2001-06-03 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
I found a way of copying files from one drive to another that is signifigantly faster than "cp -a"... (this is just the sort of geeky++ type stuff you guys like to read, I bet.) See if you can follow along here and see what I did. The "cvs.gnome.org" directory contains a checkout of the "