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    7 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    One of the interesting improvements to note with GNU Coreutils 9.5 is that the cp, mv, install, cat, and split commands can now read/write a minimum of 256KiB at a time.

    Previously there was a 128KiB minimum while this has been doubled in order to enhance the throughput of Coreutils on modern systems.

    The throughput with Coreutils 9.5 thanks to this change increases by 10~20% when reading cached files on modern systems.

    This default I/O size update was last adjusted a decade ago.

    GNU Coreutils 9.5 also has fixed various warnings when interacting with the CIFS file-system, join and uniq better handle multi-byte characters, tail no longer mishandles input from /proc and /sys file-systems, various new options for different commands, SELinux operations during file copy operations are now more efficient, and tail can now follow multiple processes via repeated “–pid” options.

    More details on all of the GNU Coreutils 9.5 changes via the release announcement.


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