OK, OK, so I shouldn't waste time reading The Register, but I do, so I can't resist sharing a pointer to this story:
Pott T. How do you copy 60m files? The Register (2010-09-24) <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/24/sysadmin_file_tools/> Basically, Pott's problem was that he had to copy 60 million files from one Windows file server to another. He tried all sorts of Windowish tools, from Microsoft and from other suppliers. Then the light bulb hit: he booted CentOS on a Linux virtual machine, mounted the source and destinations as SMB shares, and used coreutils' "cp". Voilà. His conclusion: "So the best way to move 60 million files from one Windows server to another turns out to be: use Linux."
