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Re: CP proposal
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: CP proposal |
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Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:27:38 -0700 |
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"Thorsten W. Schmidt" <address@hidden> writes:
> So i propose a new flag for the cp command to supress
> caching the files.
Why bother with a user-specified flag? Can't cp always invoke
posix_fadvise with the POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL | POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE
option?
Have you tried benchmarking this on a real GNU/Linux system? There's
no point doing it if it doesn't help much.
- CP proposal, Thorsten W. Schmidt, 2005/08/25
- Re: CP proposal,
Paul Eggert <=