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 know it's heresy but if you just want to copy files why not use the native XCOPY? It will not suffer the performance degredation of having to emulate the POSIX stat semantics on every file, just like the native DIR command in a large directory does not take ages because it simply uses FindFirstFile/FindNextFile which are fairly efficient (but do not provide sufficient information to emulate POSIX.) Brian -- 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/
