Re: [PLUG] Transfer REALLY large file(s) between Linux and OS X

[Magnus <chrish@trilug.org>]

On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 06:51  PM, Tobias DiPasquale wrote:

> This is basically what scp does, only without spawning multiple
> processes. There's also no reason not to move a file that large over
> scp, if time is not an critical factor. As for being "flat out insane",
> its nothing of the sort and FTP wouldn't be all that much faster. Try 
> it
> sometime.

I have, many times.  Given an adequate pipe, scp is often at least 3x 
slower moving a very large (4GB+) file.  Now when I was moving a lot of 
files this size, it was over a gigabit pipe so with a slower pipe you 
might not notice much of a difference.

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C. Magnus Hedemark
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