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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 18:26:01 +0300 |
> Cc: dmantipov@yandex.ru, 23904@debbugs.gnu.org, sbaugh@catern.com,
> kieran@kcolford.com
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 17:08:33 +0200
>
> No, coreutils cp has an option. As I recall it was put in soon after the
> btrfs feature was added, and we were worried about bugs in btrfs. This
> was several years ago. We're thinking of making cloning the default in
> cp (on systems that support it) but haven't gotten around to it.
When 'cp' switches to using this by default, will it still have an
option to disable it? If so, I would think it will be too bold for
Emacs not provide such an option for users, even as opt-out.