On: Network file transfer with on-the-fly compression

[KirinDave]

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.

[wmf → KirinDave]

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.