Correct me if I'm wrong here, but.... 1) Using a tar pipeline will (should) always be slower than a single process (e.g., cp, cpio -p, rsync), because of the overhead of the two processes and the system buffering for the pipe.
2) Copying to an NFS-mounted filesystem is likely to be less efficient than alternatives (e.g., rsync) because of the NFS overhead -- it looks like a local filesystem but in fact there is a lot of network processing happening behind the scene. 3) I'm not an expert on rsync, but wasn't it (initially) written in a client-server mode to achieve very high efficiency copying files over a network? Especially when updating (large) files which may have changed slightly. 4) AFAIK, cp will not preserve hard links. rsync will (though not by default). cpio and tar will by default. - Steve _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
