Ric Wheeler wrote: > I think that doing reflink by default would be a horrible idea - one > good reason to copy a file is to increase your level of fault > tolerance and reflink magically avoids that :-)
Good point. This would constitute another user-visible semantic change in cp: a disk fault that affects any non-metadata block of a ref-linked file affects both copies. GNU cp will soon attempt this only when a --reflink option is specified. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils