From 3621d51c9d7afd87c092abb1db32188ce0d1023d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?utf8?q?P=C3=A1draig=20Brady?=
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2023 11:12:28 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc: NEWS: mention the more defensive copy_file_range avoidance * NEWS: Mention the improvement in reinstating runtime avoidance of copy_file_range(), that came with the last gnulib update, picking up gnulib commit fb034b35. --- NEWS | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3d19c3bad4..97f180ed1d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** Improvements + cp, mv, and install now avoid copy_file_range on linux kernels before 5.3 + irrespective of which kernel version coreutils is built against, + reinstating that behaviour from coreutils-9.0. + split now uses more tuned access patterns for its potentially large input. This was seen to improve throughput by 5% when reading from SSD. -- 2.47.2