Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:53:14 -0400 From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] adding two new options to 'cp' Message-ID: <p06230904c0f40e01b953@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <44CE573B.209@elischer.org> References: <200607271150.k6RBoM9p031745@lurza.secnetix.de> <44C8FB65.9020102@FreeBSD.org> <44CE03D2.2050803@centtech.com> <17614.4005.407223.621637@bhuda.mired.org> <44CE199C.2020500@centtech.com> <17614.8289.134373.387558@bhuda.mired.org> <44CE4AD0.60409@centtech.com> <17614.20892.315747.115331@bhuda.mired.org> <44CE573B.209@elischer.org>
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At 12:17 PM -0700 7/31/06, Julian Elischer wrote:
>
>Ok I"m going to pipe up here.
>
>The feature is cheap, it is useful and it allows people
>to adopt FreeBSD with less surprises. I will commit
>this soon unless someone else does it first.
This is not the first time we have had a long thread
about the '-a' option, at least, and if we do not add
it now then we will just debate this again in 8-10
months. The time wasted in the debate is much worse
than the 160 bytes wasted on the disk. 160 bytes, on
a disk that we allocate room in fragments of what,
4096 byte chunks? I forget now.
I think Julian has the right idea.
... assuming there's no bugs in the code. I didn't
actually look at the code. :-)
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Garance Alistair Drosehn = drosehn@rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA
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