bug#6906: [PATCH] cp: copy entirely-sparse files oodles faster

2018-10-10 Thread Paul Eggert
Assaf Gordon wrote: Can this be closed as out-dated? Yes, that's fine. Closing.

bug#6906: [PATCH] cp: copy entirely-sparse files oodles faster

2018-10-10 Thread Assaf Gordon
(triaging old bugs) Hello, On 17/04/11 10:28 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: On 04/17/11 01:55, Jim Meyering wrote: Now that we have FIEMAP support, (by the looks of things we will soon have SEEK_HOLE support in cp and in the linux kernel) do you think adding support for this special case is

bug#6906: [PATCH] cp: copy entirely-sparse files oodles faster

2011-04-17 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert wrote: (By oodles faster I mean as much faster as you like. The benchmark below shows a 2800x speedup.) In response to an idea by Kit Westneat for GNU tar reported in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2010-08/msg00038.html, Eric Blake wrote: Meanwhile, if you are indeed

bug#6906: [PATCH] cp: copy entirely-sparse files oodles faster

2011-04-17 Thread Paul Eggert
On 04/17/11 01:55, Jim Meyering wrote: Now that we have FIEMAP support, (by the looks of things we will soon have SEEK_HOLE support in cp and in the linux kernel) do you think adding support for this special case is worthwhile? I could go either way. If so, would you care to rebase it for

bug#6906: [PATCH] cp: copy entirely-sparse files oodles faster

2010-08-24 Thread Paul Eggert
(By oodles faster I mean as much faster as you like. The benchmark below shows a 2800x speedup.) In response to an idea by Kit Westneat for GNU tar reported in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2010-08/msg00038.html, Eric Blake wrote: Meanwhile, if you are indeed correct that there are