Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!sun!snafu!lm From: lm@snafu.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Afio faster than Cpio??? Message-ID: <79637@sun.uucp> Date: 1 Dec 88 07:46:35 GMT References: <360@hrc.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: lm@sun.UUCP (Larry McVoy) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 10 In article <360@hrc.UUCP> dan@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@sun.com)