On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 2:58 AM, Dan Mossor <dan.mossor@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > These <4GiB transfers sometimes take close to 3 to 4 hours using NFS, and it > is a Gigabit network. I regularly transfer files of 1 or 2 GB over NFS between two fairly slow 32-bit machines on a 100Mbps Ethernet. Takes 2 or 3 minutes typically (monitoring shows around 8MBps end to end rate, which is not far off wire speed). As someone else said, you might benefit from packing and unpacking, using tar or possibly cpio. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org