I am using 'cp -l' to copy a large file structure. I was a bit surprised that 'cp -l' used 300 MB RAM where as 'cp -a' used around 1 MB.
I guess the reason is that 'cp -l' needs to remember what i-nodes it has seen before, where as 'cp -a' does not have to do this. If that is the case then you can hardly consider it a bug. I would, however, very much like that the manual points this out in the '-l' section: -l, --link link files instead of copying. This will require approximately XX bytes of RAM pr file. /Ole -- If some genie offered you three wishes, would not your first one be, "Tell me, please, what is it that I want the most!" -- Marvin Minsky in freenet://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/truenames// _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils