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copying a million tiny files?
- From: "sam reckoner" <sam dot reckoner at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:38:58 -0700
- Subject: copying a million tiny files?
I'm not exaggerating. I have over one million small files that like to
move between disks. The problem is that even getting a directory
listing takes forever.
Is there a best practice for this?
I don't really need the directory listing, I just need to move all the
files. I have been using rsync, but that takes a very long time to
generate the list of files to be moved.
Any alternatives?
Thanks in advance.
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