On Mon, 2020-12-21 at 09:53 -0800, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > Cool. A few questions inline... > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 11:28:51AM -0500, Ben Cotton wrote: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RPMCoW > > > > > > == Summary == > > > > RPM Copy on Write provides a better experience for Fedora Users as > > it > > reduces the amount of I/O and offsets CPU cost of package > > decompression. RPM Copy on Write uses reflinking capabilities in > > btrfs, which is the default filesystem in Fedora 33. > > What happens if you enable this on non btrfs installs? > Does it just not work gracefully? Does it fail somehow? It would be slower but still works; see note #5 > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RPMCoW#Notes Of note, even on systems with Btrfs/XFS that support reflinks, falling back to copying is still needed for e.g. files in /boot or /boot/EFI -- Michel Alexandre Salim profile: https://keyoxide.org/michel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx chat via email: https://delta.chat/ GPG key: 5DCE 2E7E 9C3B 1CFF D335 C1D7 8B22 9D2F 7CCC 04F2
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