[Samba] Copying between physical drives within samba mount - veryslow.

[david rankin]

> when I move files from /master/drive1 to /master/drive2 the copy process
> is very slow.
>
> why does samba send the whole file across the network and back?  is there
> a way to avoid this?

why not rsync from /master/drive1 to /master/drive2?
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Panos Koutsoyannis" <panos at kamaradata.com>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2004 3:10 PM
Subject: [Samba] Copying between physical drives within samba mount - 
veryslow.


>
>
> I have a situation with a linux box that has several drives mounted under
> /master
> say /master/drive1 and /master/drive2 ..etc.
> I mount /master on my windows machine or os x machine using samba.
>
>
> Here is my config
> red hat 9
> samba 3.0.x
> system drive = /
> data drive 1= /master/drive1
> data drive 2 = /master/drive2
> mounted system on pc under /master  so I see on my pc drive1 folder and
> drive2 folder.
> Dragging from drive1 to drive2 seems to pass the whole file across the
> network from drive1 to drive2.
>
> If I create folders ... say /master/folder1 and /master/folder2. these
> folders are not seperate drives.  Then movign files between them is
> lightening fast as expected.
>
> Hope someone can help.
>
> panos
>
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