Re: File System Performance

Mike Castle
2001-11-12T22:47:23Z

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 02:16:23PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> One wonders why.

No, on doesn't:

> Corrections to speed-up the sizeing pass in Amanda:

Granted, star's nullout option may have been smarter, and more in the realm
of ``least surprise,'' but one can understand why gtar does this.

Try tar cf /dev/zero instead.

mrc
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