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Re: Dired C idea


From: Peter Oliver
Subject: Re: Dired C idea
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2021 19:54:39 +0100 (BST)

On Sat, 7 Aug 2021, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2021 19:22:02 +0100 (BST)
From: Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver@mavit.org.uk>

Something else to consider is that from the next major version of GNU 
Coreutils, cp will default to copy-on-write (“--reflink=auto”) on supported 
filesystems.  This is lightning fast, and saves disk space too.

What's to prevent Emacs from doing the same?

It turns out that we already do (commit 9b21d9f9).

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Peter Oliver

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