Re: Cult of Unix

On Fri, 17 Jan 2025 02:10:16 -0500, Paul wrote:

That's *not* how you transfer sixty million files.

And yet it worked, as per the original article. Being a file-level copy,
it could move the files between entirely different filesystem formats and
volume sizes. And do so efficiently.

Windows seems to force you into thinking in terms of sector-level copies
and low-level “imaging” and like that. Filesystems are supposed to
abstract away from all that. They do on Linux, but it seems Windows hasn’t
quite caught up to that idea yet.