@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 year agoHow to write a 'tar' commandlemmy.sdf.orgimagemessage-square148fedilinkarrow-up1816arrow-down117
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•1 year agoYou do you. Compression is waste of time; storage is cheap in that you can get more, but time? Time, you never get back.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•1 year agoYes, and I’d rather not have my time wasted by waiting on thousands of small files transfer, rather than just compressing it and the time spent of one file transferring being much smaller.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•1 year agoTar achieves the same effect without time to compress and decompress.
minus-squareEager EaglelinkEnglish4•1 year agoas in time wasted transferring a highly compressible file that you didn’t bother compressing first? it’s only a waste of time when the file format is already compressed.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink-1•1 year agoUnless you measure your baud in dial up modem, it often can take longer to compress / transport / uncompress than just transfer directly.
minus-squareEager EaglelinkEnglish5•1 year agounless you’re picking a slow compressor that’s not true at all Original size | 100 GB Compressed size | 47.8 GB (2.091 ratio) Transfer speed | 1 Gbps (125 MB/s) Original transfer time | 100 GB / 125 MB/s = 800 seconds Compressed transfer time | 47.8 GB / 125 MB/s = 382.4 seconds Compressor | Snappy Compression ratio | 2.091 ratio Compression speed | 565 MB/s Decompression speed | 1950 MB/s Compression time | 100 GB / 565 MB/s = 177 seconds Decompression time | 47.8 GB / 1950 MB/s = 24.5 seconds Transfer time w/o compression | 800 seconds Transfer time with compression | 177 + 382.4 + 24.5 = 584.9 seconds
You do you. Compression is waste of time; storage is cheap in that you can get more, but time? Time, you never get back.
Yes, and I’d rather not have my time wasted by waiting on thousands of small files transfer, rather than just compressing it and the time spent of one file transferring being much smaller.
Tar achieves the same effect without time to compress and decompress.
as in time wasted transferring a highly compressible file that you didn’t bother compressing first?
it’s only a waste of time when the file format is already compressed.
Unless you measure your baud in dial up modem, it often can take longer to compress / transport / uncompress than just transfer directly.
unless you’re picking a slow compressor that’s not true at all
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