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On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 10:28:02AM +0200, Voluspa wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 16:13:52 +0800 Fengguang Wu wrote:
> > It's interesting that copying of sparse file is more efficient with small
> > readahead size :) I get the same conclusion, though with smaller differences:
> 
> How on earth can you copy the file without overwriting the target /dev/null?

Yes, it worked as expected. All the time.

I'm running zsh, though bash is also tested ok.

% cp --version
cp (GNU coreutils) 5.96
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Wu