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From: Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RFC : fast copying of a whole directory tree
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:23:02
Message-Id: 4f39545e.6P1iTwcywEMY0IpS%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: RFC : fast copying of a whole directory tree by Nikos Chantziaras
1 Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote:
2
3 > > > This works because there are two decoupled processes, shared memory
4 > > between
5 > > > them and the fact that star reads names from directories in one big
6 > > chunk.
7 > > >
8 > >
9 > > Honestly, that's news to me. Which package has star?
10 >
11 > eix -e star
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13 To help star to buffer, give star a large fifo size that is up to haslf of the
14 RAM in your machine, e.g. fs=1000m
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16 To make sure that star gives fast file creation (unpacking of archives) on
17 filesystems that do not support fast verified transactions, you need to make
18 star as "insecure" as other software to get comparable results, so add:
19
20 -no-fsync
21
22 Jörg
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RFC : fast copying of a whole directory tree Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>