Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 14:42:12 +0200 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: bv@wjv.com Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>, Gore Jarold <gore_jarold@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: VERY frustrated with FreeBSD/UFS stability - please help or comment... Message-ID: <86iralxc63.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20070522120627.GB89056@wjv.com> (Bill Vermillion's message of "Tue\, 22 May 2007 08\:06\:27 -0400") References: <475187.33232.qm@web63006.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <86r6p9xf2c.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20070522120627.GB89056@wjv.com>
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Bill Vermillion <bv@wjv.com> writes: > And one other way to 'copy' files/directories >>IF<< they are > on the same file system, is to use cpio with the -pdlm option. > > All that does is build another directory with all files in the > first liked statically to the second. Then you just 'rm' the files > in the first. Since there is NO COPYING - this is quick, won't > scatter files around as they remain where they were originally but > with just a new directory pointing to them. This is exactly what the OP already does (cp -rl) but it is nowhere near as fast as you claim when you have thousands of directories and millions of files. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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