> <@khaosfox:matrix.org> I read through these and also tried searching your fora. What is unclear to me is how exactly the command works. 
> I'm using this: ipfs add --raw-leaves --nocopy --recursive --hidden --fscache --progress $dir
> 1.) I was under the impression that '--fscache' skips files already added once, however it still prints them out the same way as if adding them the first time.
> 2.) I have 4 10TB HDD in a Lx software raid as one partition. I'm trying to add a folder with 23TB and 15+ million files. Is there any way to actually speed this up because right now it's doing between 1 and 5 files a second depending o their size.
> 3.) Can the hashes be calculated on another machine (say, with an SSD for speed. _IF_ the storage medium even matters) and then imported to my other machine so I do not have to generate them there?
> Right now it would take me over 2 months to add everything. And a additional problem is that the contents change frequently so I'd have to rerun the add command again.
> Splitting the add command onto subfolders isn't an option since it wouldn't give me one has with everything in it (as far as I know). Unless there is a way to combine them later.

The last time I did large files I clicked ipfs wasnt ready.