Re: coreutils-8.10 released [stable]

[Pádraig Brady]

On 05/02/11 07:30, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 08:20:39PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>> This is to announce coreutils-8.10, a stable release.
>>>
>>> There have been some minor bug fixes, along with two new features.  The
>>> join feature is enabled via a new option, "-o auto".  The cp feature makes
>>> copying sparse files much more efficient on several common file systems.
>>> It takes advantage of a feature that was introduced in linux-2.6.27.
>>> The improvement affects the default code path, so if you're looking
>>> for risk potential, this is it.  It uses the feature if available,
>>> and otherwise resorts to using the old, less-efficient copying code.
>>
>> tests/cp/fiemap-perf fails with EFBIG on tmpfs:
>> $ truncate -s1T f
>> truncate: failed to truncate `f' at 1099511627776 bytes: File too large
>>
>> Reducing the size from 1T to 256G makes the test pass.
> 
> Thanks for the report.
> The current df-based guard for the cp/FIEMAP tests
> is a kludge^W heuristic that will soon be replaced by
> Pádraig's python-based test:
> 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.general/821/focus=839

Yep, just did that, and got a couple of failures for sparse-fiemap
on and ext3 and loopback ext4 file systems.
On a very quick glance, I think cp is OK and that the filefrag
matching is a bit brittle.
Attached are filefrag outputs.

$ rpm -q kernel e2fsprogs
kernel-2.6.35.10-72.fc14.i686
e2fsprogs-1.41.12-6.fc14.i686

cheers,
Pádraig.

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