On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, sam reckoner wrote: > I'm not exaggerating. I have over one million small files that like to > move between disks. The problem is that even getting a directory > listing takes forever. > > Is there a best practice for this? > > I don't really need the directory listing, I just need to move all the > files. I have been using rsync, but that takes a very long time to > generate the list of files to be moved.
That usually is the best method if you are doing an incremental move. A first time move is usually faster this way: tar -cf - srcdir | tar -C dstdir -xf - -- Brian Ford Lead Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained crew... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
