On 2011-01-18 02:25, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote: > The SFTP protocol has some limitations as a filesystem access protocol, > though, because it doesn't support remote-to-remote file copies or > moves without dragging bytes across the wire, and there is no support > for recursive operations without doing the directory traversals on > the client (unlike other candidate filesystem access protocols such as WebDAV) > [*].
Correction: SFTP does support efficient remote-to-remote moves without dragging the bytes over the wire. It can also move a whole directory subtree (or more precisely a link to it) in one operation. It is just copies that require byte shuffling. That is probably an artifact of the POSIX filesystem interface not having a file copy operation, which is a broken design even for local filesystems. -- David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥ http://davidsarah.livejournal.com
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