[Wylug-help] ReiserFS slow copy

[Mike Williams]

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On Thursday 14 August 2003 12:09, Dan Walker wrote:
> I've got a reiserFS server drive which I was copying (using 'cp -ax', I'm
> afraid) to another Reiser drive, and while it was copying a directory with
> several thousand directories containing many small files each the amount of
> data it was copying was abysmally slow - like, about 1 meg a minute.  I
> understand reiserfs is excellent for lots of small files so I'm at a loss
> to explain it to the boss who now wants an NT server after seeing this 10
> hour copy operation. It was hitting 1 Gig a minute in other areas of the
> drive.

Can't say I know why it took so long, but the same operation would take a
similar amount of time on windows. (Ex) users of windows must have
experienced the copy progress get almost to the end and suddenly jump to
several million minutes left.

If you need to do this sort of thing again I'd use tar. You can, I hear, do
clever stuff with pipes and do the whole transport in one line. I'm not sure
how you'd get around the problem of different paths off hand tho.

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Mike Williams
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