Slowly moving iTunes
Feb. 17th, 2008 08:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylIn a pathetic attempt to free up some space on my internal disc, I decided to move my iTunes library off on to a NAS disc. It seemed like simplicity itself: simply tell iTunes to organise the files for me, set a new library directory and run a consolidate. But there was a wrinkle: the less than stellar performance of NFS.
According to my calculations, based on actual IO rates rather than hopelessly over-optimistic guesstimates, the move is going to require 16 hours to complete. Shocking. I think I need to spend some time with a benchmarking program tuning the NFS buffer sizes. Or maybe I'll just overnight it.
According to my calculations, based on actual IO rates rather than hopelessly over-optimistic guesstimates, the move is going to require 16 hours to complete. Shocking. I think I need to spend some time with a benchmarking program tuning the NFS buffer sizes. Or maybe I'll just overnight it.
