Deprecating scp
Deprecating scp
Posted Nov 5, 2020 23:03 UTC (Thu) by Sesse (subscriber, #53779)In reply to: Deprecating scp by tokudan
Parent article: Deprecating scp
Actually sftp is more efficient than scp, too. scp has its own awful buffering on top of TCP (lots of HPC sites used a patched version to avoid speed limits). Or at least did 10+ years ago when I checked; it's possible that OpenSSH has managed to circumvent the issue now.
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