On 23 Apr, Tim Kientzle wrote: > [Discussion moved to current_at_] > > Bruce Evans wrote: >> >> At least the -current version of tar skips reading the >> data when it is writing to /dev/null. > > A-ha! That explains a few of the odd timings I've seen. > I wonder why it does that? (Other than to look good on > benchmarks, of course. ;-) This speeds up Amanda quite a bit. Amanda will run tar with the --totals option as well as other options to specify either full or incremental backups multiple times for each file system that it backs up. It does this to plan the best mixture of full and incremental backups. If tar actually read the data from disk each time, the planning phase would take a *lot* longer, and would thrash the disk a lot more.Received on Fri Apr 23 2004 - 20:40:53 UTC
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