[wellylug] Writing in slow motion

[E.Chalaron]

No not at all.... sorry if my email was confusing, 
doing 
cp /home/edouard/mybigfile.mov /mnt/usbdisk/
id slower than processing my frames from /home/edouard/data 
to /mnt/usbdisk/mybigfile.mov




> So you mean copying between hard disks is faster than copying from one
> location to another on the same drive? This is probably because copying
> between drives means one reads while one writes, whereas copying between
> directories on the same drive means the same drive has to alternate
> reading and writing.