From 2c6736f92fc7d2f310714473ea84ceff57e01da2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 23:14:11 +0000
Subject: shred: write larger chunks when possible

* src/shred.c (dopass): When not needing to write periodic patterns,
use a 64KiB block size to reduce the number of write system calls.
---
 NEWS | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'NEWS')

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b4804a286..bb35583b6 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -87,8 +87,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   Reservoir sampling is used to limit memory usage based on the number of
   outputs, rather than the number of inputs.
 
-  shred once again uses direct I/O where available.
-  [Regression introduced in coreutils-6.0]
+  shred once again uses direct I/O where available, and increases write block
+  size from 12KiB to 64KiB when possible.
+  [Direct I/O regression introduced in coreutils-6.0]
 
   split --line-bytes=SIZE, now only allocates memory as needed rather
   than allocating SIZE bytes at program start.
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