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From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>,
	LKML <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: very poor ext3 write performance on big filesystems?
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:57:09 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0802201156520.26109@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080218153501.GE25098@mit.edu>


On Feb 18 2008 10:35, Theodore Tso wrote:
>On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 04:57:25PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> > Use cp
>> > or a tar pipeline to move the files.
>> 
>> Are you sure cp handles hardlinks correctly? I know tar does,
>> but I have my doubts about cp.
>
>I *think* GNU cp does the right thing with --preserve=links.  I'm not
>100% sure, though --- like you, probably, I always use tar for moving
>or copying directory hierarchies.

But GNU tar does not handle acls and xattrs. So back to rsync/cp/mv.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-20 10:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-18 12:57 Tomasz Chmielewski
2008-02-18 14:03 ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-18 14:16   ` Theodore Tso
2008-02-18 15:02     ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2008-02-18 15:16       ` Theodore Tso
2008-02-18 15:57         ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-18 15:35           ` Theodore Tso
2008-02-20 10:57             ` Jan Engelhardt [this message]
2008-02-20 17:44               ` David Rees
2008-02-20 18:08                 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-02-18 16:16         ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2008-02-18 18:45           ` Theodore Tso
2008-02-18 15:18     ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-18 15:03       ` Theodore Tso
2008-02-19 14:54     ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2008-02-19 15:06       ` Chris Mason
2008-02-19 15:21         ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2008-02-19 16:04           ` Chris Mason
2008-02-19 18:29     ` Mark Lord
2008-02-19 18:41       ` Mark Lord
2008-02-19 18:58       ` Paulo Marques
2008-02-19 22:33         ` Mark Lord
2008-02-27 11:20     ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2008-02-27 20:03       ` Andreas Dilger
2008-02-27 20:25         ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2008-03-01 20:04         ` Bill Davidsen
2008-02-19  9:24 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
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2008-02-19 13:14           ` Paul Slootman

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