On Thu Apr 5 12, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I was doing
>
> $ cp -Rv 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 2 /mnt/osm
>
> and was surprised seeing that source_dir 17 was done before 16; the man
> page does not specify the order, but I was thinking it just goes through
> the list in the given order...
>
> Why this is done this way?
i can't remember the reason, but the question has been raised quite often.
try searching the archives. i think it had something to do with performance
or getting better disk locality, but i'm not sure. however people were argueing
whether copying the files in reverse order is really a benefit or not.
cheers.
alex
>
> Thanks
>
> matthias
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> Matthias Apitz
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