[ale] parallel processing

[Benjamin Dixon]

I don't think this is what he means. He wants to run a single cp and have
the files copied in parallel instead of serially (copy file1, copy file2,
etc)... but then I wonder, if these are on the same disk, would "copying
them in parallel" offer any advantage? What I mean is, if you using one
disk, and you're copying x mb of data, aren't you copying said data no
matter what order you are copying it in? So I guess my question is, are we
using more than one disk here?

Ben

On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, jeff hubbs wrote:

> Andy -
> 
> You can execute each cp command with an ampersand ("&") at the end 
> (that's sometimes called "amping off") but unless the files/dirs are 
> really big, the cps will finish before you can type the next one - is 
> that what you're talking about?
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> Zyman, Andy wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > I just wonder :
> > Let's say in Oracle we have parallel SQL processing - I can specify that
> > certain SQL should be processed in parallel. 
> > What about Unix? Let's say I have  a directory on Sun server with 10 files.
> > I want to cp them to the diff. one. I'm doing cp xxx yyy. Now how it will
> > processed and who I can see that it will be done in parallel?
> > 
> > Thank You
> >  Andy
> > 
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