On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 05:52:47PM +0100, Ole Tange wrote: > Typically the tmp-filesystem will be at least as fast as any other > file system, but on many systems /tmp is faster than other filesystems > on the server. > If you really will not use tar to generate the input, then at least > make sure 'dd' only delivers data at the speed that 'tar' would have > (eg. by using 'pv').
Thanks, that's actually a point i haven't though about. In our case the tar directory is much faster than /tmp, but we could move tmp dir to someplace else. Thanks again, depesz
