On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > I re-ran my little test today and do see that 'star' does produce > somewhat reduced overall run time but does not consume less CPU than > GNU tar. This is just a test of the time to archive the files in my > home directory. My home directory is in a zfs filesystem. The output > is written to a file in the same storage pool but a different > filesystem. This time around I used default block sizes rather than > 128K. Overall throughput seems on the order of 40MB/second.
Cool. Can one selectively restore files from an archive created by Star? For example, if I archive everything under /home/rich, can I just restore /home/rich/some/random/file? What about with Star's competitors, tar, gtar, pax, and cpio? (I guess I should investigate each of those tools one day!) -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OGB member CEO, My Online Home Inventory URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.linkedin.com/in/richteer http://www.myonlinehomeinventory.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
