And last but in no way least, GNU coreutils 9.0 defaults to --reflink=auto
for cp
and install
.
Let me know if there's other software out there which supports this transparently.
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And last but in no way least, GNU coreutils 9.0 defaults to Let me know if there's other software out there which supports this transparently. 3 comments
Bonus: I should say, zfs doesn't yet support this in a release on Linux, surprisingly. Support was recently added on master in https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/13392 but only for FreeBSD. I believe Linux support is in the works. Bonus2: Portage |
Reflinks aren't particularly new, and nor is
copy_file_range
or evensendfile
(see the GCC commits), but it's interesting how often these improvements are sittong on the table waiting for someone to claim them.Check the guts of your favourite libraries, you might be surprised!