On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Alan Bourke <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 09:35 -0500, "Stephen Russell" > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Alan Bourke <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/24/sysadmin_file_tools/ >> > >> > The answer is apparently 'use Linux'. >> ------------------ >> >> Didn't the article say the fastest throughput of the load was via >> Richcopy? > > Yes, due to multi-threading, but this resulted in bad fragmentation on > the target drive. The Linux approach copied it all contiguously. > -- -------------------------
Wonder what time diffs were? To push 2,3,5.... files at once instead on 1 then 1 then 1 then 1 then 1.... it may be worthwhile to run a defrag process after the copy process and still beat a straight copy in time for the entire process. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer CIMSgts 901.246-0159 cell _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
