Re: question about parallelism in cp command

2019-06-28 Thread L A Walsh
needs to be there for underlying fs-drivers to r/w multiple full tracks at a time while performing only 1 iop to write multiple tracks. > > > -Original Message- > From: L A Walsh [mailto:coreut...@tlinx.org] > Sent: vrijdag 28 juni 2019 13:15 > To: Marc Roos > Cc:

Re: question about parallelism in cp command

2019-06-28 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 04:15:22AM -0700, L A Walsh wrote: You can target 10 areas at a time and get considerable benefit if they are spread across multiple disks in the raid. Alternatively, the kernel can hide this behind readahead.

RE: question about parallelism in cp command

2019-06-28 Thread Marc Roos
ssage- From: L A Walsh [mailto:coreut...@tlinx.org] Sent: vrijdag 28 juni 2019 13:15 To: Marc Roos Cc: aglo; coreutils Subject: Re: question about parallelism in cp command On 2019/06/06 09:25, Marc Roos wrote: > > Hmmm without being a maintainer. I would say cp -r is most used on >

Re: question about parallelism in cp command

2019-06-28 Thread L A Walsh
On 2019/06/06 09:25, Marc Roos wrote: > > Hmmm without being a maintainer. I would say cp -r is most used on > single disk, so one thread is using the maximum disk iops taking y time > to copy. --- not exactly true, if the 1 disk as a 20 disk raid10. You can target 10 areas at a time and g

Re: question about parallelism in cp command

2019-06-06 Thread Olga Kornievskaia
On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 2:44 PM Assaf Gordon wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > From: Olga Kornievskaia [mailto:a...@umich.edu] > > > > 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

Re: question about parallelism in cp command

2019-06-06 Thread Assaf Gordon
> -Original Message- > From: Olga Kornievskaia [mailto:a...@umich.edu] > > 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

Re: question about parallelism in cp command

2019-06-06 Thread Olga Kornievskaia
er > overhead finishing later than y time? > > > > -Original Message- > From: Olga Kornievskaia [mailto:a...@umich.edu] > Sent: donderdag 6 juni 2019 17:39 > To: coreutils@gnu.org > Subject: question about parallelism in cp command > > Hi folks, > >

RE: question about parallelism in cp command

2019-06-06 Thread Marc Roos
finishing later than y time? -Original Message- From: Olga Kornievskaia [mailto:a...@umich.edu] Sent: donderdag 6 juni 2019 17:39 To: coreutils@gnu.org Subject: question about parallelism in cp command Hi folks, Is there something philosophically incorrect in making a “cp” multi-threaded

question about parallelism in cp command

2019-06-06 Thread Olga Kornievskaia
Hi folks, 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? I’m not a member of the list so I kindly request you cc me on the reply.