Sometimes you can speed it up by breaking the tree up into parallel processes, so you use more CPU and saturate the network speed. The second has the most gain, but if encryption, compression and disk IO throttles it down so there is bandwidth left, more is better. I once did it with 32 parallel processes on a 16 cpu SMP, using a dumb rotator to distribute file names in rotation. It was push, though:
I think I got occasional warnings that a directory being created was already there. I might have put a 'nice -19' in there somewhere, too. The guys at gnu parallel do this sort of thing, too.
My code is this, what I'm trying to accomplish is to make a list of all pdf documents in my computer and then copy all of those documents to my external hard drive in a directory
mkdir /Volumes/Hardrive-1/allpdf
echo "File Locations" > /Volumes/Hardrive-1/allpdf/FileLocations.txt
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Hi Guys..
I want to install Linux on my portable hard drive.
I created a 20GB partition in my hard drive for linux, Now I want to make it bootable mean when I connect it to system n start the system it will start the LINUX and when start without usb-hard drive it should start the windows.
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Hi Folks,
First a little background, I am working on a ship that operates in the Indian Ocean and Persian/Arabian gulf area. We had a Sunblade 2000 that finally died. The Video board burned up and I guess damaged the mother board. So we ordered 2 rebuilt 2000s one as a spare. Due to mounting... (1 Reply)
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I would like to know if anyone has used any USB External Hard Drive, about 500/750GB or 1TB, with any of the Solaris 10 "SPARC" systems. Not on intel nor amd platform.
I'm looking for the compatible drive and found a few listed on Sun solaris ready page, but I'd like to have inputs from... (3 Replies)
Can anyone please walk me through how to mount an external parallel (or scsi) hard drive in visualize C3000 machine? I also would like to mount "/var/sallie" directory in that external drive. My "/var/sallie" directory is running out of space so I would like to mount an external hard drive so that... (0 Replies)
i have a Simple Tech hard drive that i use between two computers. it is formatted to ntfs. i have a dell desktop with Ubuntu 7.10 and Ubuntu 8.04 and Windows XP Home. and i have a laptop with Ubuntu 7.10 and Ubuntu 8.04. the laptop recognizes the hard drive on both 8.04 and 7.10 but my desktop... (9 Replies)
Hi all,
I would to know if I can install Linux on an external 320 gigabyte hard drive..I have Windows XP on my internal hard drive which is 80 GB , but this installation on 320 external HDD is for testing purpose
If it is possible to install Linux on the external drive, will it cause any... (5 Replies)