One more data point: I tweaked my copy of the coreutils code to use
asms for the obvious things, in particular, to use the byte-swapping
instructions on the x86 instead of the complicated expression
involving shifting and masking.
The measured performance went down.
That is, it took more
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mv /mnt/fs1/dir /mnt/fs2/dir
where /mnt/fs[12] are two different ext3 filesystems, /mnt/fs2/dir
doesn't exist, and /mnt/fs1/dir contains many thousands of files,
several thousand of which are reference by 3 to 6 directory entries
compared to the normal 1.
[...]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does `mv (coreutils) 5.2.1' preserve hard links? In particular
Yes.
If you can make it fail to preserve links, please report it
with as much detail as possible.
Also, you might want to try the latest test release:
Kevin Mudrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Similar to the cp-parents problem I reported yesterday,
If this is going to be a recurrent problem, we should package it
up as a separate -check file. I installed this; does it work for you?
2005-06-22 Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Tim Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I had a bug report that 'who -b' and 'who -r' fail to give output with
this patch. This fixes it:
Thanks for reporting that. IS_USER_PROCESS is already defined in
readutmp.h, so I installed this simpler patch in both coreutils
and gnulib.
2005-06-22 Paul
