RN104 - Moving Files painfully slow.

[creesy]

I must be doing something wrong because when i transfer files between folders and shares on the nas using the web interface its taking up to 10 minutes to transfer 10gb.

I would have thought this would be alot quicker should it only be remapping a path not copy the files?

[StephenB]

Each share is a btrfs subvolume.   Moves across share boundaries turn into copy+delete, and are not just path changes.

[creesy]

So in future say for instance with media downloads from transmission i should get them to save in the same share and it will be quick to move them to there destination folder?i

[StephenB]

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@creesy wrote:

So in future say for instance with media downloads from transmission i should get them to save in the same share and it will be quick to move them to there destination folder?i

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If they are downloaded into the final share, then moving them will be a true move.  You'd need to keep snapshots off on the share (since transmission is not snapshot-friendly).

It is possible to do a true move between subvolumes with ssh (using a --reflink option).  Someone from Netgear suggested that this might be implemented in the future.  Perhaps you could post a request in "Ideas for Storage"