Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes but it is specific to gnutar not anything general. Try timing:
that's worse, of course!! > tar --totals --one-file-system -cf /dev/null / > or > tar --totals --one-file-system -cf - / > /dev/null > vs. > tar --totals --one-file-system -cf - / |cat > /dev/null > > > Next to none of the difference comes from the overhead of running 'cat'. > The feature does make sense, especially if you run amanda - she is smart > enough to adjust the full/incremental mix to fill a tape every night and > still get at least some incremental level of every machine if it can > possibly fit. But, I agree that it would have been cleaner to add an > explicit option instead of magically detecting a connection to > /dev/null. ... exactly. that's the kind of irresponsible behavior i'd expect from a windows program. they've broken a compact with the user. and worse, i can find no mention of this aberrant behavior in the man page. (strace confirms that your description of the behavior is correct.) i can't believe they could be so _stupid_. paul of course, they don't believe in man pages, do they... sigh. what a crock. =--------------------- paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arlington, ma, where it's 25.3 degrees) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
