On 07/13/15 21:17, jd1008 wrote: > On 07/13/2015 06:52 PM, g wrote: >> more for thought, is tar building finale file in memory, /tmp, or on >> the usb3 drive? > :) > Well, since I was using a pipe, I assume swap backed memory is used. > However, the un-tar process is running in parallel, so the RAM > pipe is shared between the producer "tar" and the consumer > tar, which populates the destination directory with the contents > of the source directory. > That said, I do not think that the entirety of the source dir is first > copied to the "pipe", before it is then consumed by the > "un"tar process. I think the RAM pipe is being read (emptied), > as the producer fills it (using thread synchronization primitives). > Just my guess. I have not looked at tar's source code. > > ok. you have now thrown in *pipe* and process *un-tar*. are you using tar to pass files to target and have them end up as separate files, or as a single archive file? ria, all i see in your original post is "tar -C /sdc1 -xpvf" which would indicate archiving to a single file. just what is your actual command line? -- peace out. -+- If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! -+- in a world with out fences, who needs gates. -+- CentOS GNU/Linux 6.6 tc,hago. g . -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
