From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>,
LKML <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: very poor ext3 write performance on big filesystems?
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:35:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080218153501.GE25098@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080218155725.GB26622@one.firstfloor.org>
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 04:57:25PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Use cp
> > or a tar pipeline to move the files.
>
> Are you sure cp handles hardlinks correctly? I know tar does,
> but I have my doubts about cp.
I *think* GNU cp does the right thing with --preserve=links. I'm not
100% sure, though --- like you, probably, I always use tar for moving
or copying directory hierarchies.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-18 15:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-18 12:57 very poor ext3 write performance on big filesystems? Tomasz Chmielewski
2008-02-18 14:03 ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-18 14:16 ` Theodore Tso
2008-02-18 15:02 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2008-02-18 15:16 ` Theodore Tso
2008-02-18 15:57 ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-18 15:35 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2008-02-20 10:57 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-02-20 17:44 ` David Rees
2008-02-20 18:08 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-02-18 16:16 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2008-02-18 18:45 ` Theodore Tso
2008-02-18 15:18 ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-18 15:03 ` Theodore Tso
2008-02-19 14:54 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2008-02-19 15:06 ` Chris Mason
2008-02-19 15:21 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2008-02-19 16:04 ` Chris Mason
2008-02-19 18:29 ` Mark Lord
2008-02-19 18:41 ` Mark Lord
2008-02-19 18:58 ` Paulo Marques
2008-02-19 22:33 ` Mark Lord
2008-02-27 11:20 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2008-02-27 20:03 ` Andreas Dilger
2008-02-27 20:25 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2008-03-01 20:04 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-02-19 9:24 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
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2008-02-19 13:14 ` Paul Slootman
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