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On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 10:25:15 -0500 |
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Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> |
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> wrote: |
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> > But in this particular case, I don't think COW is particularly |
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> > useful. If it works only on filesystem bounds, we could move the |
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> > file directly anyway. |
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> Yup - I would only use it if you really are doing a copy and not a |
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> move (neglecting the fact that the implementation of a |
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> cross-filesystem move does a copy first). I imagine many ebuilds do |
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> copy operations internally, but probably not to an extent where it |
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> would make much difference. I'm not sure how doins/dobin/etc are |
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> implemented - I think they're copies and so allowing for the fact that |
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> not everybody uses a tmpfs it might make sense to fix those. |
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AFAICS doins uses 'install' mostly, and sometimes 'cp' (with symlinks). |
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I don't see any variant of '--reflink' option for 'install'. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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