[CLUE-Tech] Moving files from one system to another

[Lynn Danielson]

Dan Harris wrote:
> 
> NFS is SLLLLLOOOOOWWW.. dont bother trying it
> Samba is much better than NFS but it took 9 hours to copy all the files across 
> a 100megabit switch.. 

Have you tried tuning your rsize/wsize parameters?  I believe the default
size for NFS3 is 32K.  On my network NFS sucked with the default.  After
changing the read/write sizes to 8K, performance has been very acceptable.
So, I haven't bothered performance testing with other values.

Fwiw,

Lynn