Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 17:51:56 +0200 From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de> To: Michael Schuh <michael.schuh@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk-Performace issue? Message-ID: <4280D89C.9060006@incubus.de> In-Reply-To: <1dbad315050510034688a7fb@mail.gmail.com> References: <1dbad315050510034688a7fb@mail.gmail.com>
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Michael Schuh schrieb: > I have tried out following commands to copy: > tar -cf - . | ( cd <destdir>; tar -xf .) #the fastest and my lovely :-) > find ./ -type f |cpio -pm <destdir> # half-performace as tar > rsync -av <sourcedir>/ <destdir>/ # smarter then tar but bad performace > > mv or any other are not testet while i surely run in to the "too many > Arguments" Problem.... Can you try with pax? (pax -rw ...) That doesn't involve pushing the stuff thru a pipe like with tar. The cpio version is similar but it probably can be sped up a bit if you run the find once before, or feed find into a file and redirect input to cpio from that file (so that it doesn't have to seek all the time.) mkb.
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