Mastodawn

I can’t believe that nobody has thought about copying files earlier. Do I really need to write my own program to sync folders efficiently? A good design would roughly double the transfer speed / cut time in half.

Why is there still no sane Linux sync tool for file systems, that does: stat-based compare, whole-file replace, preallocation, one file at a time, and a bounded read/write queue for concurrent streaming? Everything is either rsync-style overcomplicated, cloud-ish, inefficient or brittle.

#linux #sync #filecopy #fast #efficient

nSonic Apr 28, 2025

Mein #rant über #Betriebssysteme und deren #filecopy oder #filehandling generell:
Was haben alle Computer vom C64 (und davor) mit Datasette bis zu modernen Geräten mit Linux/Windows/macOS und SSD Speicher gemeinsam? Genau: Das Datei-Handling!
Eine Datei wird 2025 im Grunde exakt genauso auf einen Datenträger kopiert wie in den 80er Jahren (und davor). Fürs Netzwerk gilt dasselbe. Alles wie damals. (1/9)

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nSonic Apr 25, 2025

Joa geht voran … im Sinne von „steht nicht ganz“ #wlan #filecopy aber an „10 Stunden“ glaube ich nicht 😜 wenn da die größeren Dateien kommen dürfte das flotter gehen 👀

Gödel Escher Spock🦿Jan 16, 2023

Hey #macstodon - Is it normal for large file copies (400-750GB) of many ~10-30MB files in one go, between two external drives to eat the *boot drive's* free space during the copy?

I saw my free space go from 120GB down to 375*MB* while doing large copies. This was on a mix of NTFS and APFS drives (boot and destination - APFS, source - NTFS in read-only mode), but when I reformatted the destination drive to HFS+, this does not happen.

Any ideas?

#macOS #filesystem #filecopy #debugging