How to speed up copying using CPIO

[yc_2]

Hi,

Is there a way to speed up the copying process using cpio ?


Thanks in advance,
YC

[Victor BERRIDGE]

Hi,
The only thing I can think of now is to use renice, look at the man pages, but then be sure that you are not already in a I/O bottleneck...

Good luck
Victor

[melvyn burnard]

How are you using CPIO? what command line? and to what are you copying??
Also which OS version?

[Andreas Voss]

Hi,

for using cpio to copy files between directories (cpio -p ...) i don't know any enhancement but when doing cpio to tape you have to use the -B option which will set blocksize to 5120.

Regards

[Alan Riggs]

One thing: if you are using the -v flag to check output the tty display will slow the command considerably. hen speed is important (and you are certain of your results) do not use the -v.