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From: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: 386/ix User-level Performance??
Message-ID: <1144@virtech.UUCP>
Date: 11 Sep 89 02:15:40 GMT
References: <472@telesoft.telesoft.com> <6750@stiatl.UUCP> <105@dumbcat.UUCP>
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In article <105@dumbcat.UUCP>, marc@dumbcat.UUCP (Marco S Hyman) writes:
> Makes one think strongly about using GNU tar for backups.
> And that brings up a question.  What _technical_ reasons, if any, are there
> for using cpio over tar or vice versa.  I'm sure this question has started
> wars in the past but I haven't seen anything for quite a while.

I'm not familiar with GNU tar, but one advantage with cpio vs tar on the 
standard 386/ix is that you can use really big blocking factors with cpio so
the tape really screams as it streams.


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