[PATCH] adding two new options to 'cp'

[Dave Horsfall]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Peter Jeremy wrote:

> As a general comment (not addressed to Tim):  There _is_ a downside to 
> sparsifying files.  If you take a sparse file and start filling in the 
> holes, the net result will be very badly fragmented and hence have very 
> poor sequential I/O performance.  If you're never going to update a file 
> then making it sparse makes sense, if you will be updating it, you will 
> get better performance by making it non-sparse.

Aha!  Thanks for that, Peter.

-- Dave, wondering why anyone would *not* want sparse files...