On Sep 14, 10:46 am, "slebet...@yahoo.com" <slebet...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Sep 13, 10:08 pm, "***** charles" <m...@mine.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
>
> > I need to transfer lots of large (4-5G)files
> > from several computers to one over a
> > network. I have access to 1G switches
> > and such so what would be the best
> > way to accomplish this, ftp, cp, samba,
> > nfs, zfs etc....? There is a Windows
> > machine in the mix but it only has a
> > few files in the mix of files I need to
> > transfer. The others are all Linux. Is
> > one brand/technology of hardware
> > any better than any other?
>
> It depends on what you mean by "best". But if by "best" you mean
> "fastest" then ftp is indeed fastest since ftp doesn't really have a
> "protocol" on the file transfer channel. Ftp negotiates the transfer
> on the control channel and then simply opens another socket and blasts
> the file directly into that socket - no headers or tails or crc or
> checksum added to the traffic so no additional overhead beyond TCP/IP.

Just out of interest, how does this compare with rsync using data
compression - obviously it depends on the files being transferred
(whether they're already compressed and so on) - just wondered how
they compare as a rule of thumb.