Re: Estimates taking a long time.

[Bernhard R. Erdmann]

> I was just going to write about this.  I have just turned on gnutar
> backups.  I noticed that the estimates are basically tar operations with
> all of the ouput going to /dev/null.  That is what's taking the time.
> Not to get the file's size, but to move the date through that system
> pipe into /dev/null.

GNU tar does consider writing to /dev/null, I'm doing some tests right
now.

# time tar cf /dev/null /usr
# time tar cf - /usr | cat > /dev/null