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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2011-07-21 08:25:49 +0100 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2012-04-30 11:14:31 +0100 |
| commit | a18ba2f10a739e1f0ef31cf0ebd60c8cf95d74f0 (patch) | |
| tree | fc8d2c573a111dde57169a49157e2b74c90442e8 /NEWS | |
| parent | c83f723267dff03e954ba77454d51a691dfba1c0 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-a18ba2f10a739e1f0ef31cf0ebd60c8cf95d74f0.tar.xz | |
cat,cp,mv,install,split: Set the minimum IO block size used to 64KiB
* NEWS: Mention the change in behavior.
* src/ioblksize.h: Add updated test results and
increase value from 32KiB to 64KiB.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** Changes in behavior + cp,mv,install,cat,split: now read and write a minimum of 64KiB at a time. + This was previously 32KiB and increasing to 64KiB was seen to increase + throughput by about 10% when reading cached files on 64 bit GNU/Linux. + cp --attributes-only no longer truncates any existing destination file, allowing for more general copying of attributes from one file to another. |