It was funny, but it would have been more efficient to use tar over netcat instead of CP or rsync to initially populate the directory. It would be a steady data stream to the network and wouldn't beat up on the file system as bad as rsync would. Good read none the less. :) ----- Original Message ----- | May be a little bit off topic, but this gave me hard laugh: | | http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/24/sysadmin_file_tools/ | | Windows admins use a virtualized CentOS machine to copy files because | their own tools are not able to handle copying a bigger amount of | data. :) | | Cheers, | | Timo | _______________________________________________ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS at centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- -- James A. Peltier Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Technical Director Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpeltier at sfu.ca Website : http://www.fas.sfu.ca | http://vivarium.cs.sfu.ca MSN : subatomic_spam at hotmail.com Does your OS has a man 8 lart? http://www.xinu.nl/unix/humour/asr-manpages/lart.html