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From: andrey mirtchovski <andrey@lanl.gov>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
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Subject: [9fans] use of ftp considered harmful?
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 22:11:04 -0600
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hi, please bear with me for a second...

i'm running into the folowing problem trying to ftp a large file off
my p9 machine -- when i type 'cp myfile /n/ftp' the ftp user level
file server starts writing it into /tmp/ftpXXXXXX. the problem
is that this file takes too long to write (~10 minutes, ~400MB,
yes, p9 is not the fastest kid in the bunch) and by the time
the whole file is written to tmp and ftpfs attempts to actually
put it across to the other side, the ftp connection has timeouted.

do you consider this a desing problem or a consequence of just
how things are in p9?

andrey