Millions of small file migrations are slow over SFTP
Moving millions of small files between hosts is slow, and users cannot tell whether rclone serve or plain SFTP is faster.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
5 public reports · first reported 24 August 2026 · last reported 29 August 2026
What's going wrong
Moving about five terabytes of millions of small files from AWS EFS to a self-hosted server is slow, and the person planning it is unsure whether rclone serve or plain SFTP is faster.
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