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@@ -21,6 +21,15 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
** New features
+ cp now copies sparse files efficiently on file systems with FIEMAP
+ support (ext4, btrfs, xfs, ocfs2). Before, it had to read 2^20 bytes
+ when copying a 1MiB sparse file. Now, it copies bytes only for the
+ non-sparse sections of a file. Similarly, to induce a hole in the
+ output file, it had to detect a long sequence of zero bytes. Now,
+ it knows precisely where each hole in an input file is, and can
+ reproduce them efficiently in the output file. mv also benefits
+ when it resorts to copying, e.g., between file systems.
+
join now supports -o 'auto' which will automatically infer the
output format from the first line in each file, to ensure
the same number of fields are output for each line.