May 30, 201610 yr I just setuped a new unraid 6.1.9. For now I only have one drive and no parity (other drives are being pre-cleared right now). I had my files on a backup on an external drive. I have created a first user share 'A' and uploaded all my files on this share. Now I have created user share 'B' and 'C'. But when I move the files from 'A' to 'B' or 'C' the file are transfering at 40mb/s. Are'nt they supposed to be moved instantly since they are on the same drive
May 30, 201610 yr Sounds like you're doing this over the network, in which case no it is not instantaneous, since you are going from one mount point (Share A) to another mount point (Share B). Completely normal behaviour and every single OS in the world operates the exact same way (copies the file over the network, then copies it back to the destination) If you exported disk shares, and went from Disk 1 folder A to Disk 1 folder B then yes it would be instaneous because they're both on the same mount (disk 1)
May 31, 201610 yr Author You are right, i'm doing this over network from windows. So I should use somting like MC or diskmv from the server to make it faster?
May 31, 201610 yr Doing it locally will be faster, but as long as you are going from share to share, unRaid (and any other OS in existance) will always do a copy, write, erase operation because of the differing mount points. Doing it through something like MC (or even over the network if you export disk shares) by using the disk shares (eg: navigate to /mnt/diskX instead of /mnt/user/share) and then move from /mnt/diskX/FolderA to /mnt/diskX/FolderB will be instantaneous. But, if you do that, make sure that both the source and destination are /mnt/diskX. Mixing source and destination of /mnt/user/Share and /mnt/diskX/Share will corrupt the files.
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