Messages in this thread | | | From | "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.44-[mm3, ac2] time to tar zxf kernel tarball compared forvarious | Date | Thu, 24 Oct 2002 09:54:49 +0000 (UTC) |
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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).
--- cut --- 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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