Afio faster than Cpio???

[Leslie Mikesell]

In article <360 at hrc.UUCP> dan at hrc.UUCP (Dan Troxel VP) writes:

>Is it true that afio is faster than cpio? When I run it on a Convergent
>S/640 (25MHZ 68020), on 5.33 megs, afio takes 45 to 50 seconds longer
>than cpio. Any suggestions as to what I need to do to get the speed up?

Are you using the -f flag to afio?
Have you tried a large -c count?

Other than the different ways of handling i/o buffering there shouldn't
be a large difference in speeds.

Les Mikesell