On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 10:25:15 -0500 Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> > wrote: > > 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. > > Yup - I would only use it if you really are doing a copy and not a > move (neglecting the fact that the implementation of a > cross-filesystem move does a copy first). I imagine many ebuilds do > copy operations internally, but probably not to an extent where it > would make much difference. I'm not sure how doins/dobin/etc are > implemented - I think they're copies and so allowing for the fact that > not everybody uses a tmpfs it might make sense to fix those. AFAICS doins uses 'install' mostly, and sometimes 'cp' (with symlinks). I don't see any variant of '--reflink' option for 'install'. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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