Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:19:10 -0700 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> To: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, Diomidis Spinellis <dds@freebsd.org>, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/tools/regression/bin/mv regress.sh Message-ID: <47DE8BEE.7040405@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20080314223652.GA20470@garage.freebsd.pl> References: <200712180849.lBI8nmEi088947@repoman.freebsd.org> <20071218100355.GR16982@elvis.mu.org> <20080314223652.GA20470@garage.freebsd.pl>
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>>> FreeBSD src repository >>> >>> Modified files: >>> tools/regression/bin/mv regress.sh >>> Log: >>> Add more tests. All rename(2)-based tests now succeed. >>> The performance of the cross-device equivalents is under investigation. > > I was thinking about adding two options to cp(1) (-1 and -2) to give > cp(1) a hint if the copy is done inside one disk or between separate > disks. Will anyone ever use such a flag? I'm skeptical. If there were a way to determine this programmatically, it would be a big win. You'd need to look at the first file copied to determine if the destination was on the same (physical) disk or not. Tim
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