diff --git a/src/uucore/Cargo.toml b/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
index 2cb8346394..388a8123bd 100644
--- a/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ parser-num = ["extendedbigdecimal", "num-traits"]
 parser-size = ["parser-num", "procfs"]
 parser-glob = ["glob"]
 parser = ["parser-num", "parser-size", "parser-glob"]
-pipes = []
+pipes = ["fs"]
 process = ["libc"]
 proc-info = ["tty", "walkdir"]
 quoting-style = ["i18n-common"]
diff --git a/src/uucore/src/lib/features/pipes.rs b/src/uucore/src/lib/features/pipes.rs
index 6a90faab8d..cee53393d7 100644
--- a/src/uucore/src/lib/features/pipes.rs
+++ b/src/uucore/src/lib/features/pipes.rs
@@ -139,12 +139,12 @@ where
                     // If the first splice manages to copy to the intermediate
                     // pipe, but the second splice to stdout fails for some reason
                     // we can recover by copying the data that we have from the
-                    // intermediate pipe to stdout using normal read/write. Then
+                    // intermediate pipe to stdout using unbuffered read/write. Then
                     // we tell the caller to fall back.
                     debug_assert!(n <= MAX_ROOTLESS_PIPE_SIZE, "unexpected RAM usage");
                     let mut drain = Vec::with_capacity(n);
                     pipe_rd.take(n as u64).read_to_end(&mut drain)?;
-                    dest.write_all(&drain)?;
+                    crate::io::write_all_raw(dest, &drain)?;
                     return Ok(true);
                 }
             }
@@ -210,9 +210,10 @@ pub fn send_n_bytes(
                         }
                     } else {
                         debug_assert!(s <= MAX_ROOTLESS_PIPE_SIZE, "unexpected RAM usage");
+                        // drain pipe before fallback to raw write
                         let mut drain = Vec::with_capacity(s);
                         broker_r.take(s as u64).read_to_end(&mut drain)?;
-                        target.write_all(&drain)?;
+                        crate::io::write_all_raw(&target, &drain)?;
                         break true;
                     }
                 }