Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On Solaris 10 at least you need to use dd iflag=fullblock
> to avoid short reads. Also it's relatively slow when
> you just want non NUL data as opposed to pseudo random data.
>
> * cp/fiemap-empty: Convert /dev/zero rather than using /dev/urandom.
> * dd/sparse: Likewise.
On 04/24/2012 11:48 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> On Solaris 10 at least you need to use dd iflag=fullblock
>> to avoid short reads. Also it's relatively slow when
>> you just want non NUL data as opposed to pseudo random data.
>>
>> * cp/fiemap-empty: Convert /dev/zero rather
On 04/24/2012 01:15 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> With those changes, the affected files are then very compressible.
>> > With some file system types/options, won't they occupy far fewer
>> > blocks than before?
> Good point.
> The dd/sparse one could then fail the alloc check.
> The fiemap-empty c
On 04/24/2012 12:53 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>
>
> On 04/24/2012 01:15 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>> With those changes, the affected files are then very compressible.
With some file system types/options, won't they occupy far fewer
blocks than before?
>> Good point.
>> The dd/sparse
[adding coreutils]
On 04/24/2012 09:43 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>> Thanks for the report of the documentation bug and the patch, but the patch
>>> (changing the meaning of --color from --color=auto to --color=always)
>>> would break existing usage.
>>>
>>> Currently, people can use --color in an
