new snapshot available: coreutils-8.11.9-8c0b1d

[Jim Meyering]

Considering the potential for data loss when using coreutils-8.11 on
ext4 and xfs when using e.g., 2.6.39-rc3[*], here's a snapshot that will
soon become coreutils-8.12.  Please give it a try.

Here is the NEWS addition:

** Changes in behavior

  cp's extent-based (FIEMAP) copying code is more reliable in the face
  of varying and undocumented file system semantics:
  - it no longer treats unwritten extents specially
  - a FIEMAP-based extent copy always uses the FIEMAP_FLAG_SYNC flag.
      Before, it would incur the performance penalty of that sync only
      for 2.6.38 and older kernels.  We thought all problems would be
      resolved for 2.6.39.
  - it now attempts a FIEMAP copy only on a file that appears sparse.
      Sparse files are relatively unusual, and the copying code incurs
      the performance penalty of the now-mandatory sync only for them.

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[*] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.general/1041

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coreutils snapshot: (.gz files are here, too)
  http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz      4.7 MB
  http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz.sig
  http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-8.11.9-8c0b1d.tar.xz

There are .gz and .sig files here, too:
  http://people.redhat.com/meyering/cu/coreutils-ss.tar.xz
  http://people.redhat.com/meyering/cu/coreutils-8.11.9-8c0b1d.tar.xz

Changes in coreutils since v8.11:

Jim Meyering (8):
      post-release administrivia
      tests: remove spurious syntax from a perl snippet
      copy: always use FIEMAP_FLAG_SYNC, for now
      copy: do not treat unwritten extents specially: avoid XFS/ext4 data loss
      copy: factor out a tiny sparse-testing function
      copy: use FIEMAP (extent_copy) only for apparently-sparse files,
      tests: sparse-fiemap: report more detail upon failure; ignore an FP
      tests: sparse-fiemap: with root/ext3, do not create an ext4 FS

Ondřej Vašík (1):
      dircolors: add .ear, .war, .sar, for Java jar-like archives


Changes in gnulib since v8.11:
  none taken