"Thorsten W. Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.


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