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Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
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@@ -18,6 +18,13 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- which can return varied file system I/O block size values for files. [bug introduced in coreutils-6.0] + cp, mv, and install now immediately acknowledge transient errors + when creating copy-on-write or cloned reflink files, on supporting + file systems like XFS, BTRFS, APFS, etc. + Previously they would have tried again with other copy methods + which may have resulted in data corruption. + [bug introduced in coreutils-7.5 and enabled by default in coreutils-9.0] + 'mv --backup=simple f d/' no longer mistakenly backs up d/f to f~. [bug introduced in coreutils-9.1] @@ -299,6 +306,7 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** Changes in behavior cp and install now default to copy-on-write (COW) if available. + I.e., cp now uses --reflink=auto mode by default. cp, install and mv now use the copy_file_range syscall if available. Also, they use lseek+SEEK_HOLE rather than ioctl+FS_IOC_FIEMAP on sparse |