Giuseppe Scrivano wrote: > Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> writes: >>> ..., a cloned partially-sparse file on btrfs takes less >>> space than a fully-sparse copied file. >> >> That is not true. A fully-sparse file takes less space >> than a partially-sparse one. > > Sorry I wasn't clear, I wanted to say that a cloned file in any case > take less space than really copying it.
That depends on what you mean by "really copying it". If you copy with --sparse=always and the file has at least one non-sparse run of zeros, that result will be smaller than the cloned file. >> Adding this optimization should not change the meaning of >> --sparse=always. > > So do you want to use it only when --sparse=auto is used? Precisely. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
