Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> writes: >> ..., a cloned partially-sparse file on btrfs takes less >> space than a fully-sparse copied file. > > That is not true. A fully-sparse file takes less space > than a partially-sparse one.
Sorry I wasn't clear, I wanted to say that a cloned file in any case take less space than really copying it. > Adding this optimization should not change the meaning of > --sparse=always. So do you want to use it only when --sparse=auto is used? Cheers, Giuseppe _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
