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On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 08:44:28 -0500
Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
> Oh, on the topic of btrfs, if any emerge operations do file copies,
> adding --reflink=auto to the cp command will GREATLY improve
> performance. That does a copy-on-write copy - it behaves like a
> hard-link as far as time to create goes, but it behaves like a full
> copy as far as modifications not being shared goes. [...]
We don't rely on external tools to do the copying. AFAIR it uses
Python's shutil module which is rather poor. I'm slowly working on
creating atomic-install tool for merging this more optimally [1].
But in this particular case, I don't think COW is particularly useful.
If it works only on filesystem bounds, we could move the file directly
anyway.
[1]:https://github.com/mgorny/atomic-install
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Best regards,
Michał Górny
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