Re: mv accross filesystems

[Torsten Scherer (Schiller) <itschere@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>]

> No, this has nothing to do with FIONREAD.  GNU cp uses st_blksize from
> struct stat as the buffer size.  IMHO, it should rather use a multiple
> of this size, and in fact i have patched it to always use at least 8K.

 Maybe, I'm not sure. Point is that it *does* ask the os somehow and not use
a fixed buffer instead. So it *is* slow and you have to patch something to get
it quicker.

 But this starts missing the goal of the first mail.

ciao,
TeSche