Collin Funk <[email protected]> writes: > Hi, > > Is there a reason that 'install --reflink' does not exist? I was curious > myself, and saw someone asked the same thing a few years ago [1]. As far > as I can tell they didn't get a response, but the lists.gnu.org > interface isn't great at tracking things across months so I could have > missed it. > > I can't immediately think of why it shouldn't be supported. Both cp and > install have --debug, though I suppose that is more useful for > --reflink=auto and copying items which may go to a different file > system.
I have no objection to it, but I wonder if there's much value in it.
install already defaults to --reflink=auto (*):
static void
cp_option_init (struct cp_options *x)
{
cp_options_default (x);
x->copy_as_regular = true;
x->reflink_mode = REFLINK_AUTO
...
x->sparse_mode = SPARSE_AUTO;
...
}
Would we want to add a control for sparse too?
(*) This was not the case at the time of the ML post you mention as [1].
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