From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 27 10:33:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (earth-nat-cw.backplane.com [208.161.114.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A20437B61B for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:33:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@earth.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f3RHXFp08682; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:33:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:33:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200104271733.f3RHXFp08682@earth.backplane.com> To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" Cc: jwd@bsdwins.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, asmodai@wxs.nl Subject: Re: cp -u patch References: <20010426222132.B55566@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <20010426171522.A51935@bsdwins.com> <200104262126.f3QLQkA56841@earth.backplane.com> <20010427074436.2fc7bd29.steveo@eircom.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG : :On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:26:46 -0700 (PDT) :Matt Dillon wrote: : : :MD> There is a whole lot more to doing an efficient copy then simply checking :MD> the mtime. It's silly to try to integrate it into 'cp'. Use cpdup :MD> instead. plug plug plug. : : OK plug away - why is cpdup better than rsync ? Hardlinks aren't well supported, chflags aren't supported at all, and rsync does not scale well for large filesystems. At least that is my experience. Don't get me wrong, rsync is a cool little program... but it isn't very efficient. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message