On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 10:49:14PM -0600, Rob Ross wrote:
> You're right; it is the destination block size that is used (or was when 
> we last looked).
> 
> The patch to my knowledge was never accepted.  I don't have a copy of it 
> handy; I'll look around if someone else doesn't turn it up soon.  It 
> would be really nice to get it in.

What finally went in was much more complicated than what we proposed,
but coreutils CVS has a cp(1) that now considers the st_blksize of
both the source and destination file systems.  I think the improved cp
will be in coreutils-6.0 whenever that's released. 

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2005-11/msg00250.html

==rob

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Rob Latham
Mathematics and Computer Science Division    A215 0178 EA2D B059 8CDF
Argonne National Labs, IL USA                B29D F333 664A 4280 315B
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