On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Ryan Duffy wrote: >a large file to move (e.g. 700Meg ISO image). >large amounts of RAM available for file caching. >2 separate disks of significantly different speed (e.g. one fast >internal HDD, one fairly slow external HDD).
I'm going to make some assumptions here. Please correct them if wrong: - You have some USB or FireWire drive connected (to Linux?) - You have moved a file onto it, and noticed that mv returns well before the kernel buffers are flushed to disk - You have mounted the filesystems (probably implicitly) with the "async" mount option This has nothing to do with GNU mv, and everything to do with the kernel I/O caching and mount options. There are options (e.g. "sync") to mount to trade off performance against data integrity, if that's your preference. Cheers, Phil _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
