Re: linux file copy slowness ??

On 2006-01-06, parvinderb@xxxxxxxxx <parvinderb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are trying to copy a 15Gig file from one directory to another
> (inside same partition) for example:
>
> cp /data/BigFile /data/data/ (Bigfile - being file that is greater
> than 15 gig).
>
> It takes about 32 minutes to finish copying. When we do the same
> operation on a windows 2003 server it takes almost HALF the time.
> I am wondering if this behaviour is normal or something wrong with
> system?kernel? etc.

What file system? While Windows has FAT and NTSC, Linux can use many
different file systems. There was just a link posted on slashdot
(well, yesterday) benchmarking them .... let me check ...

http://linuxgazette.net/122/TWDT.html#piszcz
.

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