Re: coreutils-8.10 released [stable]

2011-02-13 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 08/02/11 10:14, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 08/02/11 08:42, Jim Meyering wrote: Do you think it's worth resorting to the FS-name-based test when python is not available? I don't think so, because df can currently allow the test to proceed erroneously:

Re: coreutils-8.10 released [stable]

2011-02-13 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: On 08/02/11 10:14, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 08/02/11 08:42, Jim Meyering wrote: Do you think it's worth resorting to the FS-name-based test when python is not available? I don't think so, because df can currently allow the test to proceed erroneously:

Re: coreutils-8.10 released [stable]

2011-02-08 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: On 05/02/11 13:59, Jim Meyering wrote: Pádraig Brady wrote: Yep, just did that, and got a couple of failures for sparse-fiemap on and ext3 and loopback ext4 file systems. On a very quick glance, I think cp is OK and that the filefrag matching is a bit brittle. Attached

Re: coreutils-8.10 released [stable]

2011-02-08 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 08/02/11 08:42, Jim Meyering wrote: Do you think it's worth resorting to the FS-name-based test when python is not available? I don't think so, because df can currently allow the test to proceed erroneously: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2011-02/msg00018.html Also the overlap

Re: coreutils-8.10 released [stable]

2011-02-08 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: On 08/02/11 08:42, Jim Meyering wrote: Do you think it's worth resorting to the FS-name-based test when python is not available? I don't think so, because df can currently allow the test to proceed erroneously:

Re: coreutils-8.10 released [stable]

2011-02-07 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 05/02/11 13:59, Jim Meyering wrote: Pádraig Brady wrote: Yep, just did that, and got a couple of failures for sparse-fiemap on and ext3 and loopback ext4 file systems. On a very quick glance, I think cp is OK and that the filefrag matching is a bit brittle. Attached are filefrag outputs.

coreutils-8.10 released [stable]

2011-02-04 Thread Jim Meyering
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

Re: coreutils-8.10 released [stable]

2011-02-04 Thread Dmitry V. Levin
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

Re: coreutils-8.10 released [stable]

2011-02-04 Thread Dmitry V. Levin
On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 03:11:12AM +0300, Dmitry V. Levin wrote: 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