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Re:Network file transfer with on-the-fly compression by KirinDave on Wednesday May 06, 2009 @02:24PM (#596407)
That's the first thing I thought of too. The -C flag is there specifically for this very scenario.

Also, would "j" have worked better than "z" in the tar line? bzip2 is much slower than gzip, but does a better job.

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Re:Network file transfer with on-the-fly compression by wmf on Wednesday May 06, 2009 @04:05PM (#596612)
Really we should have adaptive compression so that the CPU and network usage is balanced. Too bad it may require "rampant layering violation" to implement.
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