at a time. This was seen to increase throughput. Up to 2 times
when reading cached files on linux for example.
+ cp -a now tries to preserve extended attributes (xattr), but does not
+ diagnose xattr-preservation failure. However, cp --preserve=all still does.
+
+
* Noteworthy changes in release 7.1 (2009-02-21) [stable]
** New features