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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2013-11-07 11:57:09 +0000 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2013-11-08 13:39:35 +0000 |
| commit | c2eaef2f57153a22b6dc075b1adc9fde1a4eb7bd (patch) | |
| tree | 746f4aab9dbb815268574b59ea229a7777f69c47 /src | |
| parent | c93d5b4aa7f675dabaebf5e4ee9583162e4c977d (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-c2eaef2f57153a22b6dc075b1adc9fde1a4eb7bd.tar.xz | |
shred: increase I/O block size for periodic pattern case
* src/shred.c (dopass): In the periodic pattern case increase the
I/O block size from 12KiB to 60KiB (also a multiple of 3 and 4096).
* NEWS: Adjust accordingly.
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/shred.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/shred.c b/src/shred.c index 98dd8726c..6ff8322c9 100644 --- a/src/shred.c +++ b/src/shred.c @@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ dopass (int fd, char const *qname, off_t *sizep, int type, /* Fill pattern buffer. Aligning it to a page so we can do direct I/O. */ size_t page_size = getpagesize (); -#define PERIODIC_OUTPUT_SIZE (12 * 1024) +#define PERIODIC_OUTPUT_SIZE (60 * 1024) #define NONPERIODIC_OUTPUT_SIZE (64 * 1024) verify (PERIODIC_OUTPUT_SIZE % 3 == 0); size_t output_size = periodic_pattern (type) |