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Old 07-12-2014, 12:42 AM   #1
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Unhappy Faster copying files in linux from one disk to another


->I want to copy a file in linux system from one disk to another disk.....now the problem is...i have got a million files in my one directory of disk-1....i want to make the process of copying faster.

->if i zip it.....the time i am saving there...is used in uncompressing them.
->parallelizing the task may also not help because acc to me the disk is having only one head.....so reading from disk anyhow will be sequentially only
 
Old 07-12-2014, 02:16 AM   #2
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I'd use rsync but making it faster means making your OS faster and if possible your hardware...
 
  


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