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
this is a matter for upstream. they can be reached at bug-coreutils@gnu.org.
*** Bug 528316 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This was done in coreutils 9.0.