| Steve Litt via plug on 3 Nov 2020 00:03:48 -0800 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Copying files to multiple volumes |
On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 10:35:06 -0400 "K.S. Bhaskar via plug" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote: > You can of course extend the boustrophedon heuristic to n drives, if > you have the drives, e.g., largest file on drive 1, next largest on > drive 2, next two on drive 3, next on drive 2, next two on drive 1, > etc. And maybe two drives will suffice if you compress each file > before storing it. Bhaskar, Long ago I made a backtracking algorithm (Ruby) to best-fit a bunch of files onto a bunch of volumes. Can you spell overkill? I like your idea much better. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug