Re: mv accross filesystems

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>]

Ok, here is the patch to fileutils-3.12/src/cp.c to make it use a
bigger buffer size.  Note that the buffer is created on the stack, so
that you have to set _stksize big enough (at least 10K).

--- fileutils-3.12/src/cp.c~	Thu Nov  3 23:42:12 1994
+++ fileutils-3.12/src/cp.c	Fri Feb 24 10:19:16 1995
@@ -1177,6 +1177,11 @@
     }
 #endif
 
+  /* If not making holes use a bigger buffer.  */
+
+  if (!make_holes && buf_size < 8192)
+    buf_size = 8192;
+
   /* Make a buffer with space for a sentinel at the end.  */
 
   buf = (char *) alloca (buf_size + sizeof (int));

-- 
Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de              completely different"