> -----Original Message----- > From: Olga Kornievskaia [mailto:[email protected]] > > Is there something philosophically incorrect in making a “cp” > multi-threaded and allow for parallel copies when “cp -r” is done? If > it’s something that’s possible, are there any plans in making a > multi-threaded cp?
On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 02:17:40PM -0400, Olga Kornievskaia wrote: > The use case I'm consider are network file systems. So perhaps a > default can be a single threaded system for the local filesystems but > add an option to cp for the -r case that would enable network file > system to copy files in parallel. In an interesting coincidence, see recent post by Paul Kolano here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2019-06/msg00011.html (Note that his suggestions have not been reviewed yet, so this is neither endorsement nor criticism of his code.) regards, - assaf
