[clug] fastest way to copy a fs

Eyal Lebedinsky eyal at eyal.emu.id.au
Wed Jan 17 09:15:34 GMT 2007


David Lloyd wrote:
> 
> Heh,
> 
>>> Remember to put the source and destination disk on different 
>>> controllers, whether you're using IDE,
> 
> 
> How about starting the copy in the first place using any sane means
> immediately available...then by the time that we've decided, debated and
> reasoned the theoretical fastest means, it will have finished?
> 
> :P

But of course, normally this is a valid argument (ignoring the smiley for
a moment). However, I want to minimize the downtime and can hopefully
delay this a few days.

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