Re: tar on nfs freezes
* Martin Maciaszek (mmaciaszek@gmx.net) spake thusly:
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 12:18:29AM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote:
... The freeze appeared after about 1 GB has been
> > copied.
> > We worked around it: cp -a does the same job and does not freeze. )
> >
> For copying large abounts of data over the network I suggest
> using a netcat tunnel. This works faster than scp and doesn't
> need any network file systems.
Yes, that or rsh/ssh will bypass NFS with all its overhead. The recommended
way is to do tar -bcpf foo bar | rsh target (cd dir && tar -xbpf -) IIRC.
To OP: read about -b option to tar. If your problem is with NIC drivers,
-b might fix it. OTGH if cp -a works for you, use that.
Dima
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