copy and tar performance?

[Daniel Parish]

On 12/28/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> Using Nautilus, for instance, does slow down copying immensely.  But not
> from the progress bar (in my case, at least), but from what monitors
> changes to the file system (where the file is being copied to).  I found
> that changing the window showing the destination to show another
> directory made a big difference.

I have observed the same behavior using the gentoo file manager.

Daniel