Thanks for the response. Yeah I saw the same behavior with NFS. It would be nice to have an rpc.move.
However, if I use netatalk the does not copy across the wire. I have not looked into the detail of the protocol. However, it has its own limitations. Do you know of any movement in this area? Logging in directly is not an option for our clients. I have looked at netatalk, samba, nfs and webdav stuff. Panos -----Original Message----- From: Mitch (WebCob) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2004 3:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Samba] Copying between physical drives within samba mount - veryslow. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:samba- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Panos Koutsoyannis > Sent: December 11, 2004 1:11 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Samba] Copying between physical drives within samba mount - > veryslow. > > I have a situation with a linux box that has several drives mounted under > /master > say /master/drive1 and /master/drive2 ..etc. > I mount /master on my windows machine or os x machine using samba. > > when I move files from /master/drive1 to /master/drive2 the copy process > is very slow. > > it seems samba actually sends the file over he network from the linux > machine to the pc on which it is mounted and back to the linux machine. > > This only happens when there are different drives involved. however if i > move files within the same drive it is fast as expected. > [Mitch says:] This is similar to Linux itself - if you were moving within an NFS mount point, you would move... which I believe is commonly implemented as a hardlink to the second location OR a copy if on a different physical location, then an unlink from the old location... Windows / SMB has the same limitation in the protocol - There is no "rpc move" used (or even existing I think?) so it does what it has to do within the protocol - you will of course see much faster throughput by doing these major moves locally on the server box through a shell if that is an option for you. m/ -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
