Re: cp.exe chunk size

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, skelker wrote: > Is there a reason that cp.exe uses 8KB chunk sizes to copy files? This > behavior leads to very fragmented files, especially when copying large > files. In addition to what Eric said about posix_fallocate, Cygwin 1.5.25 should use a 64kb chunk size. -- Bri

Re: cp.exe chunk size

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to skelker on 11/30/2007 2:23 PM: > Hi, > Is there a reason that cp.exe uses 8KB chunk sizes to copy files? This > behavior leads to very fragmented files, especially when copying large > files. This has been brought up before, if you want