Subject: Re: bug#11950: cp: Recursively copy ordered for maximal reading speed

From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 06:26:35 +0200

tags 11950 moreinfo
thanks

Alan Curry wrote:
...
> It's called directory order. It used to be simply order of creation of
> files, with deletions creating gaps that could be filled by later
> creations with same-length or shorter names.

Thanks for the report Michael,
and thanks for replying, Alan.

Michael, you may have noticed that your email automatically
created an "issue" in our bug tracker: any email discussion on
this thread ends up being archived here: http://bugs.gnu.org/11950
Please let us know how your experiments go.