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This is true if the bookkeeping was irrelevant and unnecessary. I imagine the scenario where your copy gets stopped in the middle is worse when you use the tar
by makmanalp 12y ago
This is true if the bookkeeping was irrelevant and unnecessary. I imagine the scenario where your copy gets stopped in the middle is worse when you use the tar method.
- brazzy 12y agoIt's not as if cp gives you anything more useful in that case. The bookkeeping that caused the problem was a hashtable of files that have been copied, necessary to handle hard links. Would be interesting how tar does that; if it can't do any better then the root comment and mine above are wrong.