On Sun, 11 Mar 2018, Gordon Messmer wrote:

> On 03/10/2018 05:24 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
> > I can't find the documentation any more, but I have found
> > documentation on how to use copy the create the target as a hard
> > link or as a soft link. It is possible I have incorrectly
> > remembered what I had read, or it is possible over time that the
> > standard copy functionality has changed and now you have to
> > explicitly specify that you want that functionality.
>
> I'd forgotten the other system that works as you described: reflink.
>
> "cp" supports a --reflink option, and on a few filesystems that
> implement it (btrfs, OCFS2, maybe xfs and zfs, I'm unclear on their
> status), you can create a CoW copy of a file.
>
> Again, not standard behavior, not widely implemented, and relatively
> new, but this might be what you were thinking of.

  ok, that's cool, i had no idea that even existed.

rday
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