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bug#23904: Btrfs clone support in copy operations
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#23904: Btrfs clone support in copy operations |
Date: |
Wed, 06 Jul 2016 17:58:15 +0300 |
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 13:48:26 +0200
> Cc: sbaugh@catern.com, Kieran Colford <kieran@kcolford.com>
>
> Revised patch attached. Basically untested, since I don't use any file
> systems that support FIOCLONERANGE. The patch still has FIXMEs for what
> happens if the FIOCLONERANGE ioctl is interrupted by a signal, and for a
> good clone chunk size (the patch guesses 1 GiB).
Thanks.
However, I wonder: are we sure users will always want this
unconditionally, completely out of their control? Does 'cp' from
Coreutils do the same unconditionally, for example?