speedcopy 2.1.3

Replacement or alternative for python copyfile() utilizing server side copy on network shares for faster copying.

speedcopy

Patched python shutil.copyfile using native call CopyFile2 on windows to accelerate transfer on windows shares. On Linux, it issues special ioctl command CIFS_IOC_COPYCHUNK_FILE to enable server-side copy.

This works only when both source and destination files are on same SMB1(CIFS)/2/3 filesystem.

See https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Server-Side_Copy

Installation

Add speedcopy to PYTHONPATH or:

pip install speedcopy

Usage

If you want to monkeypatch shutil.copyfile() then:

import shutil
import speedcopy

speedcopy.patch_copyfile()

# your code ...
shutil.copyfile(src, dst)

This will make last call to use speedcopy.

Direct use:

import speedcopy

# some code ...

speedcopy.copyfile(src, dst)

There is also debug mode enabled by setting speedcopy.SPEEDCOPY_DEBUG = True. This will print more information during runtime.

Benchmark

Windows

Filesize	Python	Speedcopy	Factor
1	0.0797	0.0222	3.59
2	0.1702	0.0254	6.69
4	0.3257	0.0271	12.01
8	0.6729	0.0337	19.94
16	1.335	0.0384	34.72
32	2.3612	0.0625	37.72
64	57.4549	0.9758	58.88
128	10.9294	0.1669	65.47
256	20.3843	2.276	8.96
512	35.9462	3.9966	8.99
1024	65.6285	28.0291	2.34

Linux

Filesize	Python	Speedcopy	Factor
1	0.0682	0.0099	6.88
2	0.0894	0.0105	8.51
4	0.1337	0.012	11.14
8	0.1922	0.0145	13.25
16	0.2853	0.0193	14.78
32	0.4724	0.0288	16.4
64	8.0071	0.4724	16.94
128	1.3338	0.2311	5.77
256	2.6599	0.4788	5.55
512	5.3798	0.9796	5.49
1024	10.3328	2.9180	3.54

Note that Windows and Linux timing do not correlate, they are taken from different systems. Notice the spike on 64 Mb size file on both of them. Also note that these figures are not taken from production grade hardware and setup and can be completely off at other places.

You can test it yourself with included benchmark.py (and this will take some time as values are measured multiple times and then averaged).

Todo

• Better error handling
• Other platforms support
• Conform behaviour to original shutil.copyfile()
• Review benchmark code