On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 1:33 PM, Stephan Eggermont <stephan@stack.nl> wrote:

On 22/05/17 04:38, Ben Coman wrote:

On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 11:25 PM, Stephan Eggermont
<stephan@stack.nl
<mailto:stephan@stack.nl>> wrote:
So this was copying files at the OS level?�� Which OS?

MacOS.

The smaller size of the archive without compression was a surprise. i.e.
two-thirds empty space in filesystem blocks...

Why is that a surprise? Most methods are a lot smaller than 4K

Lets say minor-surprise.�� It just wasn't at the forefront of my thoughts to expect this.

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File by file copy to a USB stick. Wow! Yes, thats over an hour.

I used a Samsung T3, which is somewhat faster than most sticks.

But I guess your primary drive is SSD?�� So you don't get to bypass the
issue using archvies?
What result do you get cloning pharo-core like my first test case?

real�� 0m40.270s
user�� 0m6.174s
sys�� 0m18.002s

on a slow wifi/dsl on a MBP13 mid 2014 2.6 i5

About the same was mine then.�� Hopefully that means Iceberg won't suffer much. ��
Does your "tar" results match mine also?

cheers -ben ��