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New That was my intuitive suspicion
-drl
New And as usual
intuition is wrong. Intuition is nothing more than a fancy name for prejudice.
Get some data and THEN judge.
New Well sure
I'll still try both in my situation. As soon as my uid is moved below 64k. Believe it or not, cpio and tar on HP-UX are broken if your uid is >64k. The file ownership is changed to that of the invoking process, so sudoing the move changes the owner of all files to root. I do not understand this. gnutar works.
-drl
     tar vs. cpio - (deSitter) - (43)
         I'd use tar. - (static) - (2)
             Re: I'd use tar. - (deSitter) - (1)
                 I've done it on Linux., - (pwhysall)
         dd - (pwhysall)
         What I'd do. - (folkert) - (2)
             Re: What I'd do. - (deSitter) - (1)
                 Nope - (ben_tilly)
         What I'd be inclined to do - (ben_tilly) - (35)
             What he said. -NT - (static)
             Re: What I'd be inclined to do - (deSitter) - (33)
                 The CPU overhead is likely less than the network overhead. - (pwhysall) - (30)
                     Especially text... -NT - (Another Scott) - (4)
                         Not a given - (deSitter) - (3)
                             Even PKZip on a 286 running DOS could fly through text files - (Another Scott) - (1)
                                 Re: Even PKZip on a 286 running DOS could fly - (deSitter)
                             Doesn't matter - (ben_tilly)
                     In fact... - (ben_tilly) - (1)
                         Re: In fact... - (deSitter)
                     Your pipe is too small then - (broomberg) - (22)
                         Try different compression quality? - (ben_tilly) - (18)
                             Try? We do not try. We do. - (broomberg) - (17)
                                 An advantage of gzip is that it's easy to detect errors. - (Another Scott) - (1)
                                     If you MUST... - (broomberg)
                                 Thanks for the figures - (ben_tilly)
                                 Thanks, and questions. - (pwhysall)
                                 lzop vs. gzip - (pwhysall) - (12)
                                     Interesting - (broomberg) - (11)
                                         Seeing you tease Peter makes me aware that... - (ben_tilly) - (1)
                                             In person - (broomberg)
                                         What are happening to the 450s? - (folkert) - (3)
                                             Dunno. Ask Dave. - (broomberg) - (2)
                                                 I'm sorry Dave, but Dave's friend Dave says Dave's at... - (ben_tilly)
                                                 Thanks. -NT - (folkert)
                                         Ah, but in MY house... - (pwhysall) - (4)
                                             Not spam - (broomberg) - (3)
                                                 Still spam; just spam on dead trees. - (CRConrad) - (2)
                                                     "admirable or honourable" - Yup - (broomberg) - (1)
                                                         The fulfillment (sic) third, maybe. The rest? Nope. - (CRConrad)
                         That was my intuitive suspicion -NT - (deSitter) - (2)
                             And as usual - (broomberg) - (1)
                                 Well sure - (deSitter)
                 Beware spaces in filenames - (Arkadiy) - (1)
                     Already checked :) -NT - (deSitter)

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