topic Re: Moving data between servers using NFS mounts and the cp command in Operating System - HP-UX

Moving data between servers using NFS mounts and the cp command

Timothy Czarnik — Mon, 10 May 2010 21:08:10 GMT

Generally speaking is it faster/better to copy data FROM a local filesystem TO an NFS mounted filesystem or is it faster/better to copy data FROM and NFS mounted filesystem TO a local filesystem?

Re: Moving data between servers using NFS mounts and the cp command

Steven Schweda — Mon, 10 May 2010 22:11:10 GMT

I know nothing, but I'd expect little
difference.

Why not run the experiment? I'd trust
reality more than any advice you might get
here.

Re: Moving data between servers using NFS mounts and the cp command

Kapil Jha — Tue, 11 May 2010 01:09:51 GMT

well I suppose it should be the same because we using same network same protocol, the only difference is we only initiating the process from different server.

Its true check for the real input by doing it.

BR,
Kapil+

Re: Moving data between servers using NFS mounts and the cp command

Bill Hassell — Tue, 11 May 2010 01:37:46 GMT

No measureable difference...NFS is simply slow, especially for small files. There is a large amount of traffic needed to find, open and close each file. ftp will be significantly faster. If this is a regular task, you will find rsync even faster for files that don't change a lot.