[Nottingham] Calculating the overhead of "tar"

Mike Cardwell lug at blubbernet.com
Sun Dec 12 15:21:47 GMT 2004


On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Robert Hart wrote:

> I don't know how much data you are sending, but this:
>
> tar cf /dev/null --totals ~

That's perfect. Blindingly fast, even on a few hundred MB. Thank you.

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