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Re: NTFS fragmentation redux
- From: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 05:59:14 -0700
- Subject: Re: NTFS fragmentation redux
- References: <456133E5.8000509@tlinx.org>
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According to Linda Walsh on 11/19/2006 9:49 PM:
> Some time back (~Aug), there was a discussion about NTFS's file
> fragmentation problem.
And I still haven't had time to hack up coreutils to experiment with
adding a call to posix_fadvise and/or posix_fallocate when cp/mv/install
is working with a non-sparse regular file. Maybe I should try that, since
coreutils 6.5 was released upstream yesterday.
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Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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