On 13 February 2012 22:11, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Joerg Schilling wrote: >> Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote: >> >>>> > This works because there are two decoupled processes, shared memory >>>> between >>>> > them and the fact that star reads names from directories in one big >>>> chunk. >>>> > >>>> >>>> Honestly, that's news to me. Which package has star? >>> >>> eix -e star >> >> To help star to buffer, give star a large fifo size that is up to haslf of >> the >> RAM in your machine, e.g. fs=1000m >> >> To make sure that star gives fast file creation (unpacking of archives) on >> filesystems that do not support fast verified transactions, you need to make >> star as "insecure" as other software to get comparable results, so add: >> >> -no-fsync >> >> Jörg >> > > > The problem with star is that when I need to copy a large number of > files, it isn't on the DVD I boot from. That's why most people use cp > since it is on every bootable media I have ever booted. That includes > the Gentoo bootable media. > > Since star is so good, why not get them to include it on the bootable > media? Is it to large a package or what?
It used to be in the Knoppix package list, but alas it is no more. :-( I still keep my old copy somewhere just for this reason. -- Regards, Mick
