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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2013-12-13 14:05:53 +0000
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2013-12-13 14:05:53 +0000
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downloadcoreutils-ee7512cf007dbbfa10b44d7dd8aceb9d0033094b.tar.xz
stat,tail: improve support for hostfs and smackfs
hostfs is provided by the Linux UML subsystem. smackfs is provided by the Linux Smack security module. * src/stat.c (human_fstype): Add new file system ID definitions. * NEWS: Mention the improvement, and adjust for the fact that SNFS is a remote file system.
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@@ -122,10 +122,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
sha1sum for example has improved throughput by 40% on an i3-2310M.
This also affects sha1sum, sha224sum, sha256sum, sha384sum and sha512sum.
- stat and tail work better with EFIVARFS, EXOFS, F2FS, SNFS and UBIFS.
- stat -f --format=%T now reports the file system type, and tail -f now uses
- inotify for files on those file systems, rather than the default (for unknown
- file system types) of issuing a warning and reverting to polling.
+ stat and tail work better with EFIVARFS, EXOFS, F2FS, HOSTFS, SMACKFS, SNFS
+ and UBIFS. stat -f --format=%T now reports the file system type, and tail -f
+ now uses inotify for files on all those except SNFS, rather than the default
+ (for unknown file system types) of issuing a warning and reverting to polling.
shuf outputs subsets of large inputs much more efficiently.
Reservoir sampling is used to limit memory usage based on the number of