Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> writes: >> Another possible issue with this I can think of is >> depending on the modification pattern of the COW files, >> the modification processes could fragment the file or >> more seriously be given ENOSPC errors. > > I hope btrfs takes care of this behind the scene. > > How does the clone work wrt to space consumed, a la df? > If copying a 1GB file this way does not update usage > stats to reflect the additional 1GB of space used, ...
I tried to clone a big file and df reported a different "used blocks" stat that it was before the clone operation. Cheers, Giuseppe _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
