creating zipfile with symlinks

[Michael Torrie]

On 03/04/2016 05:18 AM, Larry Martell wrote:
> Unfortunately very slow - around 8 minutes to zip a 7GB dir using the
> command line zip vs. 13 seconds with the python zipfile module.

And likely Python's zipfile is just giving up and storing the file
without compression.  What does unzip -v say about the compression on
the zip file you made with zipfile.