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| author |  Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2016-01-20 14:47:52 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2016-01-20 14:47:52 -0400 |
| commit | 54229acf2d42a6467b92ad38d0729b268f666be7 (patch) | |
| tree | daad7b1f2703019943ec8b2c92bd82e67f78aedc /doc | |
| parent | 690fe061ccf08493bcaeb05969b56cc0735d3863 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/forum/Use_reflinks_on_BTRFS_instead_of_symlinks___63__/comment_4_bbe2e6359f7b754bde9d61b5a8d5e672._comment b/doc/forum/Use_reflinks_on_BTRFS_instead_of_symlinks___63__/comment_4_bbe2e6359f7b754bde9d61b5a8d5e672._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a26904883 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Use_reflinks_on_BTRFS_instead_of_symlinks___63__/comment_4_bbe2e6359f7b754bde9d61b5a8d5e672._comment @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 4""" + date="2016-01-20T18:43:13Z" + content=""" +It's true; the directory special remote copies the files in and out. The +main reason this is done is to get a useful progress display, which using +`cp` wouldn't provide. Of course, if cp were using reflinks, it'd be so +fast that a progress display would not be necessary! But often, reflinks +cannot be used. + +It might be a good enhancement for the directory special remote to be +configurable to use cp --reflink, or even autodetect if reflinks can be +used (although I don't know how it would detect that). + +OTOH, you might be better off using `git clone --shared`. Recent versions +of git-annex can hard-link objects between shared clones. +"""]] |