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.

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