----- Original Message ----- | On 9/24/2010 12:08 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: | > It was funny, but it would have been more efficient to use tar over | > netcat instead of CP or rsync to initially populate the directory. | > It would be a steady data stream to the network and wouldn't beat up | > on the file system as bad as rsync would. | | I'll trade being able to stop/start and repeat the same command | (rsync) | for a few extra packets over my local net any day. | | -- | Les Mikesell | lesmikesell@gmail.com | | | _______________________________________________ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS@centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Keep in mind I mentioned "to initially populate the directory". Had the tar over netcat failed you could still then use rsync to restart.
Just a thought is all. ;) -- James A. Peltier Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Technical Director Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpeltier@sfu.ca Website : http://www.fas.sfu.ca | http://vivarium.cs.sfu.ca MSN : subatomic_spam@hotmail.com
Does your OS has a man 8 lart? http://www.xinu.nl/unix/humour/asr-manpages/lart.html