Bob Friesenhahn <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote:

> A tar pipeline still provides terrible file copy performance.  Read 
> bandwidth is only 26 MB.  So I stopped the tar copy and re-tried the 
> cpio copy.
>
> A second copy with the cpio results in a read/write data rate of only 
> 54.9 MB/s (vs the just experienced 132 MB/s).  Performance is reduced 
> by more than half.  Based on yesterday's experience, that may diminish 
> to only 33 MB/s.

        "star -copy -no-fsync bs=8m fs=256m -C from-dir . to-dir"

is nearly 40% faster than 

        "find . | cpio -pdum to-dir"

Did you try to use highly performant software like star?

Jörg

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