Re: [coreutils] cp/reflink-perm fails on btrfs (and probably on ocfs2, too)

[Erik Auerswald]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:39:58AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> The cp/reflink-perm test fails on a btrfs file system:
> 
>     echo > file2 # file with data
>     cp --reflink=auto --preserve --attributes-only file2 empty_copy || fail=1
>     test -s empty_copy && fail=1
> 
> because with --reflink=auto, the file contents are copied, too,

Is this intentional? I would have expected that no data is copied, because
this is stated in the documentation. The --reflink option should change
behaviour of a data copy only, IMHO.

Erik
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