Re: coreutils-8.10 released [stable]

[Dmitry V. Levin]

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.


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