Server side copy for client/server file renaming

[cornhulio]

Hi,

One feature that I’d love to see and might be fun to implement is that I’ve noticed some network protocols (SMB/NFS) are soon-to-be/already supporting server side copy/move operations. This is mostly useful if, like me, the Sonarr instance you run is separate from your NAS/file store and you want to save time/resources/avoid fragmentation by having the operation done server-side rather than over the network.

TBH, I’m not sure whether it is/will be transparently implemented in both protocols - it looks as though for both you may need to explicitly use it.

SMB (Supported from Windows 7+): https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Server-Side_Copy (SMB with - requires special ioctl to be used.)

NFS (only being developed for the upcoming v4.2) - http://wiki.linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/Server_Side_Copy

[markus101]

Unless support is added to .net and subsequently mono this isn’t something that we can support. I did a quick search and didn’t find any mention of that support existing.

[cornhulio]

No, I think it’s relatively new to these protocols.
Looks like it’s not exposed to .NET natively and won’t be for a while yet.

Apologies for the wild goose chase, I was just thinking how awesome it would be for my particular situation.

[markus101]

I’m pretty sure .net does it if its on the same SMB share, which is useful in its limited way.