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- From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
- Subject: Re: Fastest way to transfer whole filesystems?
- Message-ID: <BxL8J8.5Aw@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 05:28:19 GMT
- References: <40335@unix.SRI.COM>
- Organization: The Programmer's Pit Stop, Ann Arbor MI
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- In article <40335@unix.SRI.COM> cole@unix.SRI.COM (Susan Cole) writes:
- >just an inevitably slow procedure? What I'm moving is the news partition,
- >and I've already learned that restoring it from dump tape is horribly slow.
-
- Unfortunately, copying it with cpio -p or two tars in a pipe is going
- to be slow for the same reason that restoring it from a dump tape is
- slow -- you are restoring lots of little files, and there is a lot of
- overhead involved in creating the directory entries for those little
- files. There really is no fast way of doing this, other than a
- sector-by-sector copy of the entire disk {en masse}; unfortunately you
- can't do this if you're going to a different size or type of disk.
-
- --
- Marc Unangst, N8VRH | "There are two ways to solve this problem:
- mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us | the hard way, and the easy way. Let's start
- | with the hard way."
- | - W. Scheider, from a Physics lecture
-