libeatmydata<\/a>. A pair of tools for compensating for your Operating System casually hating you.<\/p>\nI imagine people will love this when taking database backups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Want to do something like “cp big_file copy_of_big_file” or “tar xfz big_tarball.tar.gz” but without thrashing your cache? Enrico Zini has a nice little LD_PRELOAD called nocache. $ nocache tar xfz foo.tar.gz Goes well with libeatmydata. 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