On Sun, 11 Mar 2018, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 03/10/2018 05:24 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: > > I can't find the documentation any more, but I have found > > documentation on how to use copy the create the target as a hard > > link or as a soft link. It is possible I have incorrectly > > remembered what I had read, or it is possible over time that the > > standard copy functionality has changed and now you have to > > explicitly specify that you want that functionality. > > I'd forgotten the other system that works as you described: reflink. > > "cp" supports a --reflink option, and on a few filesystems that > implement it (btrfs, OCFS2, maybe xfs and zfs, I'm unclear on their > status), you can create a CoW copy of a file. > > Again, not standard behavior, not widely implemented, and relatively > new, but this might be what you were thinking of. ok, that's cool, i had no idea that even existed. rday _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
