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rincebrain
25 days ago
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cp: -r or -R?
I assume they typoed reflinking, a way of doing CoW-based copying of file contents.
groestl
25 days ago
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I was under the impression it could do that, I think I build a snapshotting mechanism using this.
Flimm
25 days ago
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rsync does not have the ability to copy a file using the filesystem's copy-on-write feature. This is unlike cp, which has the --reflink flag. Here's the bug report on GitHub which the developers closed as "won't fix for now":
https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/119#issuecommen...
trucks-refinish
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