Re: [coreutils] How do you copy 60 million files?

[Dmitry Ilyin]

> OK, OK, so I shouldn't waste time reading The Register, but I do,
> so I can't resist sharing a pointer to this story:
> Pott T. How do you copy 60m files? The Register (2010-09-24)
> <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/24/sysadmin_file_tools/>
> Basically, Pott's problem was that he had to copy 60 million
> files from one Windows file server to another.  He tried all
> sorts of Windowish tools, from Microsoft and from other suppliers.
> Then the light bulb hit: he booted CentOS on a Linux virtual
> machine, mounted the source and destinations as SMB shares,
> and used coreutils' "cp".  VoilЮ.  His conclusion:
> "So the best way to move 60 million files from one Windows server
> to another turns out to be: use Linux."

Link goes to 404.

Strange, why windows tools could not copy that many files? Mount disk over 
windows smb and use xcopy from console or any file manager.