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According to Linda Walsh on 11/19/2006 9:49 PM:
> Some time back (~Aug), there was a discussion about NTFS's file
> fragmentation problem.

And I still haven't had time to hack up coreutils to experiment with
adding a call to posix_fadvise and/or posix_fallocate when cp/mv/install
is working with a non-sparse regular file.  Maybe I should try that, since
coreutils 6.5 was released upstream yesterday.

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Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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