On Sat 08 Feb 2020 at 10:38:19 (-0500), Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> > I'm not aware that there's a faster way of sending the files once > >> > you've unpacked the archive locally. After all, you've thrown away the > >> > benefits of compression and aggregation. > >> rsync? > > Sure, if you're updating a tree. But AIUI the OP is transferring > > a kernel source archive from scratch. > > That's just a special case of "updating". I do it "all the time".
Yes, I think I expressed that badly. What I meant originally was faster than sending the archive. When you wrote rsync, I was thinking you meant rsync for sending the archive, but I see you meant the unarchived tree. Yes, I would think that would beat mc in the ²…² scenario. Cheers, David.
