Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752139AbYBTK5W (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:57:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750849AbYBTK5L (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:57:11 -0500 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:46391 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750791AbYBTK5K (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:57:10 -0500 Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:57:09 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Theodore Tso cc: Andi Kleen , Tomasz Chmielewski , LKML , LKML Subject: Re: very poor ext3 write performance on big filesystems? In-Reply-To: <20080218153501.GE25098@mit.edu> Message-ID: References: <47B980AC.2080806@wpkg.org> <20080218141640.GC12568@mit.edu> <47B99E0C.8020706@wpkg.org> <20080218151632.GD25098@mit.edu> <20080218155725.GB26622@one.firstfloor.org> <20080218153501.GE25098@mit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 755 Lines: 19 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/