Re: 2.5.44-[mm3, ac2] time to tar zxf kernel tarball compared forvarious

From: Henning P. Schmiedehausen (hps@intermeta.de)
Date: Thu Oct 24 2002 - 04:54:49 EST

Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> writes:

>simple tests like this. We recently ran into one with tar recognizing
>that it was writing to /dev/null, and optimizing for it.

As stated in the info document. It is there for a reason (Amanda).

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   When the archive is being created to `/dev/null', GNU `tar' tries to
minimize input and output operations. The Amanda backup system, when
used with GNU `tar', has an initial sizing pass which uses this feature.
--- cut ---

        Regards
                Henning

>Hans

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