On 01/04/15 14:49, Ramaseshan wrote: > Hi GNU team, > Just wanted to check, when we copy a file using the cp utility, what > block size does it use to copy a file. > I am also looking around and reading the archives, but if anybody could > respond it would be great.
It has been creeping up over time: 8 -> 32K http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=v7.1-44-g55efc5f 32 -> 64K http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=v8.16-33-ga18ba2f 64 - 128K http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=v8.22-103-g74ca6e8 You can check your version like: strace -e read,write cp /bin/cp /dev/null cheers, Pádraig.
