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Re:My experience with using cp to copy 432 million files (39... by unwind on Friday September 12, 2014 @03:05AM (#8306888)
But the program being discussed is (of course) GNU cp. That program is not in any way designed for, limited to, or intended only for, use in Linux.

So what Linux supports and doesn't support in terms of memory management really has no bearing on what GNU cp can or cannot do, in general.

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