I have a sparse file allocated to 1G ls -lh test.img shows 1.0G du -h test.img shows 5.9M
This is what I was expecting. Now after pax on that single test.img file ls -lh test.img.tar.gz shows 1.4M du -h test.img.tar.gz shows 1.4M This is what I was expecting. Here is the problem: Running pax on a native directory tree takes 2 seconds to archive it. I put that same directory tree into a sparse file and now pax takes 35 seconds to archive it. The resulting archive file is good and restores correctlly. Why does pax take so long to archive a sparse file? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
