jim owens wrote: > It passes the test that 99% of the time for any user (including > root), "it just works the way I want it to". In my experience, > root and setuid programs really don't want to take ownership, > they want to replicate it. Unfortunately in the other 1%, as I've explained in detail in another mail, it's a lot of work and sometimes impossible for a program to set the attributes to be those of a new file. Whereas an explicit choice between snapshot attributes and new-file attributes never causes problems, because it's trivial to provide the automatic "-p" switch by trying one then the other. To human-optimise, make your reflink _program_ do that. Humans don't call system calls themselves :-) > The behavior matches "cp -p" or "tar -x" Actually it doesn't, but even if it did, not having any way to turn off the "-p" would be just as annoying as if you couldn't do that with "cp". If you like root to have "cp -p", put it in /root/.bashrc :-) -- Jamie -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
