Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 12 Nov 2001 14:46:52 -0800 | From | Mike Castle <> | Subject | Re: File System Performance |
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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.
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