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Re: hdd change



On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 16:04, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 03:49:34PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 11:55, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > 4. Run the following command:
> > > # tar cvpf - / --exclude=new --exclude=proc | tar xvpf - --directory=/new
> > 
> > Just curious: why no "x" or "j" in order to minimize disk IO?
> 
> ('"z" or "j"', perhaps?)
> 
> The two tars are in a pipe; disk I/O won't be affected by compression,
> and you'll just spend time compressing and decompressing all the data
> for no gain ...

Duh, since there's no intermediary holding area, and uncompressed
IO needs to take place anyway...

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