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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: sbaugh@catern.com, kieran@kcolford.com, dmantipov@yandex.ru,
	23904@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23904: Btrfs clone support in copy operations
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2016 18:26:01 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k2gyn5yu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <577D1EF1.5020401@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Wed,  6 Jul 2016 17:08:33 +0200)

> Cc: dmantipov@yandex.ru, 23904@debbugs.gnu.org, sbaugh@catern.com,
>  kieran@kcolford.com
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 17:08:33 +0200
> 
> No, coreutils cp has an option. As I recall it was put in soon after the 
> btrfs feature was added, and we were worried about bugs in btrfs. This 
> was several years ago.  We're thinking of making cloning the default in 
> cp (on systems that support it) but haven't gotten around to it.

When 'cp' switches to using this by default, will it still have an
option to disable it?  If so, I would think it will be too bold for
Emacs not provide such an option for users, even as opt-out.





  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-06 15:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1467745602.28158.17.camel@kcolford.com>
2016-07-06  0:49 ` bug#23904: Btrfs clone support in copy operations Paul Eggert
2016-07-06  2:45   ` Dmitry Antipov
2016-07-06  5:52     ` Helmut Eller
2016-07-06 11:48     ` Paul Eggert
2016-07-06 14:58       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-06 15:08         ` Paul Eggert
2016-07-06 15:26           ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-07-06 17:32             ` Paul Eggert
2016-09-11  2:16               ` Paul Eggert
2016-09-11 15:25                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-11 17:17                   ` Paul Eggert
2016-09-11 19:20                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-09-11 22:44                       ` Paul Eggert
2016-09-12  2:35                         ` Eli Zaretskii

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