[ccache] [RFC PATCH] Use fast (copy-on-write) copies on btrfs

2014-09-17 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Egon Alter sez: this is a feature request. I think it would make sense to add CoW (Copy-on- Write) support for ccache (instead of using dangerous hard-links) I think so too. for filesystems which support it (zfs, btrfs, more to come?). I've hacked up a simple patch to do this

[ccache] [RFC PATCH] Use fast (copy-on-write) copies on btrfs

2014-09-17 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
this is a feature request. I think it would make sense to add CoW (Copy-on- Write) support for ccache (instead of using dangerous hard-links) I think so too. for filesystems which support it (zfs, btrfs, more to come?). I've hacked up a simple patch to do this unconditionally on btrfs on