Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:33:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steveo@eircom.net> Cc: jwd@bsdwins.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, asmodai@wxs.nl Subject: Re: cp -u patch Message-ID: <200104271733.f3RHXFp08682@earth.backplane.com> References: <20010426222132.B55566@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <20010426171522.A51935@bsdwins.com> <200104262126.f3QLQkA56841@earth.backplane.com> <20010427074436.2fc7bd29.steveo@eircom.net>
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:On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:26:46 -0700 (PDT)
:Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> wrote:
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:MD> There is a whole lot more to doing an efficient copy then simply checking
:MD> the mtime. It's silly to try to integrate it into 'cp'. Use cpdup
:MD> instead. plug plug plug.
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: OK plug away - why is cpdup better than rsync ?
Hardlinks aren't well supported, chflags aren't supported at all,
and rsync does not scale well for large filesystems. At least that
is my experience. Don't get me wrong, rsync is a cool little program...
but it isn't very efficient.
-Matt
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