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A question about filesystems and quantity of files in relation to speed
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I understand why it takes forever to copy 500,000 small files from one partition to another. However if I put those 500,000 files into a zip and copy that over, then unzip it, it only takes about 10 seconds.
What is a zip/unzip process is able to do with the filesystem that makes it quick that a copy process is not?
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