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Date:      Tue, 22 May 2007 09:03:24 -0400
From:      Bill Vermillion <bv@wjv.com>
To:        Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des@des.no>
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:  <20070522130324.GA89918@wjv.com>
In-Reply-To: <86iralxc63.fsf@dwp.des.no>
References:  <475187.33232.qm@web63006.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <86r6p9xf2c.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20070522120627.GB89056@wjv.com> <86iralxc63.fsf@dwp.des.no>

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On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 14:42  Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav said 'Who you talkin' to? 
You talkin' to Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav?  I didn't do nuttin'.  I said:

> 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
> -- 
> Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav - des@des.no

Sorry.  I missed the -rl option.  I started usind the cpio -pdlm
option many years ago and never used the cp -rl.

Bill

-- 
Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com



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