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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...
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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.

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