[PLUG] Moving/copying old home to new machine

[Paul Heinlein]

On Tue, 12 Sep 2017, Michael wrote:

> Paul, Russel,
>
> Both of you have used relative terms in describing sizes.
>
> What is small-ish?
> What is VERY LARGE?
>
> Please describe in terms file count, aggregate size of data, or 
> other metrics.

The big caveat is that said metrics are somewhat hardware-dependent. 
The greater the amount of system RAM, the quicker various checksum and 
inode calculations can be made. With fast SSDs, all sorts of 
operations go faster. Ditto with low-latency I/O or network 
connections.

When I mentioned a "small-ish directory tree," I was thinking of no 
more than an couple GB in aggregate size, no complex hard-linking, and 
files numbering in the dozens or hundreds (not tens of thousands). For 
hardware, I had in mind a typical home PC, not an extreme gamer unit 
or a well-appointed enterprise server.

> If nothing else it will provide some humor in the future. "They 
> considered that VERY LARGE? hahahaha" "small-ISH? it's less than a 
> disk block, that's tiny."

Sad but true...

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