On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 08:20:39PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: > This is to announce coreutils-8.10, a stable release. > > There have been some minor bug fixes, along with two new features. The > join feature is enabled via a new option, "-o auto". The cp feature makes > copying sparse files much more efficient on several common file systems. > It takes advantage of a feature that was introduced in linux-2.6.27. > The improvement affects the default code path, so if you're looking > for risk potential, this is it. It uses the feature if available, > and otherwise resorts to using the old, less-efficient copying code.
tests/cp/fiemap-perf fails with EFBIG on tmpfs: $ truncate -s1T f truncate: failed to truncate `f' at 1099511627776 bytes: File too large Reducing the size from 1T to 256G makes the test pass. -- ldv
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