Re: rdump

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On 27 Dec 2005, Miek Gieben wrote:

> *ai* :) rdump (I may rename it to rdup) also needs to hold the
> filesnames in memory.

But your code will be more efficient than 'tar' :-) see below

> As most filesnames share a common prefix a lot
> of memory could be saved. Currently this does not happen. If you want
> to learn C, this is your chance :-) Right now, rdump is an extremely
> simple and elegant program :-)
>
> btw, dare I ask how big your resulting tar file is? :)

Not large, around 20 GB because we have many small files.
The problem is 'tar': the file list is only 200 MB, but
'tar' needs 1 GB RAM for using it :-(

Greetings
Sven

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