[PLUG] Moving/copying old home to new machine

[Michael]

Great description Paul


On 2017-09-12 08:46, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> 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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