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  • ..is this entirely in ram?

    From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to Maurice Kinal on Sun Aug 24 21:59:00 2025
    Hello Maurice!

    Is a linux process like this processed entirely in ram until
    the final output to OutputDIR:

    tar cvf - -C SourceDIR . | gpg -e -r NAME - | split -b SIZE -
    OutputDIR

    --
    ../|ug

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  • From Maurice Kinal@1:153/7001 to August Abolins on Mon Aug 25 11:25:25 2025
    Hey August!

    Is a linux process like this processed entirely in ram until the
    final output to OutputDIR:

    tar cvf - -C SourceDIR . | gpg -e -r NAME - |
    split -b SIZE - OutputDIR

    My guess is yes BUT usually some sort of swapping to disk will be required if there isn't enough ram to process the entire output of SourceDIR before writing it to OutputDIR.

    Дуже груви,
    Maurice

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