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From: Andrew Stitt <astitt@cats.ucsc.edu>
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Subject: RE: [9fans] dumb question
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Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 10:18:50 -0700
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possibly, keep in mind its a complete waste of file server resources to
repeatedly tar/untar a directory tree, all i want is the ability to copy a
directory tree without having to use a program that wasnt really designed
for that anyways.

On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Stephen Parker wrote:

> do you plan on doing this a lot?
>
> --
> Stephen Parker.  Pi Technology.  +44 (0)1223 203438.
>
> > why must i needlessly shove all the files into a tar, then unpack them
> > again? thats incredibly inefficient! that uses roughly twice the space
> > that should be required, it has to copy the files twice, and
> > it has the
> > overhead of having to needless run the data through tar. Is
> > there a better
> > solution to this?
>
>
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