(replying to several; addressing COW)
For some strange reason, I feel like the ingredients for some dish:
sliced and diced!
(just kidding)
(me)
I have no real use for either feature. They add complexity and risk,
and slow things down.
I was referring to compression more than to COW.
All use that I make of copying ("cp", not "mv") is either
* so I can then change the duplicate (so the original is a starting
point or template for something else), or
* to removable media.
It's not the meta-data handling that concerns me. I understand the
importance of that, and that the meta-data handling does not take up
man-noticeable time. Also, editors (vim is the only one I use),
LibreOffice, and other things make working copies of whatever I open the
tool on. So changes are applied to the working copy, not the original,
until I commit the changes (":w" and ":wq" in vim, "Save" and "Save as"
in most other tools). These all also keep some list of changes for use
by "undo" functionality. So COW seems redundant with the functionality
built into (almost?) everything I use. (Hmmm... Is "dnf" an exception?)
The real issue is compression, not COW. I've already disabled COW on
/home. I actually now think I'll reverse it.
I'll make a separate post on that.
Thank-you, everyone.
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