Re: [PATCH] copy: adjust fiemap handling of sparse files

2011-02-09 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: I was looking at adding fallocate() to copy.c, now that the fiemap code has gone in and I noticed that if there was allocated space at the end of a file, not accounted for in st_size, then any holes would not be detected. Good point. In what other cases does the sparse

[PATCH] tests: avoid gross inefficiency in make test

2011-02-09 Thread Jim Meyering
Running make -j25 check on a nominal-12-core F14 system would cause serious difficulty leading to an OOM kill -- and this is brand new. It worked fine yesterday. I tracked it down to all of the make processes working on the built_programs.list (in src/Makefile.am) rule built_programs.list:

bug#8005: coreutils-8.10: make check failure

2011-02-09 Thread Chris Clayton
On Tuesday 08 February 2011, Jim Meyering wrote: Chris Clayton wrote: Firstly, please cc me on any reply because I'm not subscribed. I'm trying to build coreutils-8.10 but am getting a failure when I run make check. The failure occurs in check cp/sparse-fiemap and the log of that