Afio faster than Cpio???

Larry McVoy lm at snafu.Sun.COM
Thu Dec 1 17:46:35 AEST 1988


In article <360 at hrc.UUCP> dan at hrc.UUCP (Dan Troxel VP) writes:
>
>Is it true that afio is faster than cpio? When I run it on a Convergent
>S/640 (25MHZ 68020), on 5.33 megs, afio takes 45 to 50 seconds longer
>than cpio. Any suggestions as to what I need to do to get the speed up?

Try afio -c 1000 [the rest].  Make sure you have 5megs available.  Or
you could ask Mark, he wrote it after all.  He's at laidbak!mdb.

Larry McVoy      (lm%snafu at sun.com)



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