On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 12:40 PM, hubert depesz lubaczewski <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 05:52:47PM +0100, Ole Tange wrote: >> Typically the tmp-filesystem will be at least as fast as any other >> file system, but on many systems /tmp is faster than other filesystems >> on the server. >> If you really will not use tar to generate the input, then at least >> make sure 'dd' only delivers data at the speed that 'tar' would have >> (eg. by using 'pv'). > > Thanks, that's actually a point i haven't though about. > > In our case the tar directory is much faster than /tmp, but we could > move tmp dir to someplace else.
No need to move: Just set $TMPDIR or use --tmpdir. /Ole
