Thanks, I'd forgotten that. The performance improvement is long overdue, so I
installed the attached.
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From: Paul Eggert
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 22:16:24 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] cp: default to COW
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Hi,
The most recent discussion I found about this:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2016-09/msg00015.html
It's definitely currently never.
https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/cp.c#L796
However for mv, it is used (which I understand it's a different thing,
the