Re: Effects of changing tar's -b option.

On Sat, 2006-Jun-24 20:12:56 -0700, Nikolas Britton wrote: >Test Setup: >250 50MB files (13068252KB) >dd if=/dev/random of=testfile bs=1m count=50 >Ethernet mtu=6500 >Transferred files were wiped after every test with 'rm -r *'. > >Test: >hostB: nc -4l port | tar xpbf n - >hostA: date; tar cbf n -

Effects of changing tar's -b option.

Test Setup: 250 50MB files (13068252KB) dd if=/dev/random of=testfile bs=1m count=50 Ethernet mtu=6500 Transferred files were wiped after every test with 'rm -r *'. Test: hostB: nc -4l port | tar xpbf n - hostA: date; tar cbf n - . | nc hostB port; date Test Results: seconds = n 645sec. = 1024 6