Copy remote files on nfs without round-trip
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I have a large amout of data (several GB) on a remote drive, that is transparently mounted via nfs. I'd like to copy these files into a subdirectory of where they are already residing, so everything stays on the same physical disk. For that reason, I would like to prevent an unnecessary round trip …
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cp files* subdir
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It seems that cp files* subdir does the naive thing and reads all the data into memory and then writes it back. Is that true? Yes. Is there a special command that does the actual copying entirely on the server the disk is physically connected to? No…
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