Bug 498162

Summary:	sys-apps/coreutils - enable cp --reflink=auto by default
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	poncho <poncho>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	phil.tooley, sam
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	PATCH
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description poncho 2014-01-15 11:20:12 UTC

would you be willing to add an reflink useflag to enable reflink=auto by default?

--- coreutils-8.21/src/cp.c~    2013-06-22 21:50:26.265639114 +0100
+++ coreutils-8.21/src/cp.c     2013-06-22 21:51:06.880513924 +0100
@@ -775,7 +775,7 @@ cp_option_init (struct cp_options *x)
   x->interactive = I_UNSPECIFIED;
   x->move_mode = false;
   x->one_file_system = false;
-  x->reflink_mode = REFLINK_NEVER;
+  x->reflink_mode = REFLINK_AUTO;

   x->preserve_ownership = false;
   x->preserve_links = false;

see https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/80351/why-is-cp-reflink-auto-not-the-default-behaviour

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2014-01-16 01:37:25 UTC

this is a matter for upstream.  they can be reached at bug-coreutils@gnu.org.

Comment 2 Sam James archtester

2022-12-26 07:36:19 UTC

*** Bug 528316 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Sam James archtester

2022-12-26 07:36:27 UTC

This was done in coreutils 9.0.