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Btrfs clone support in copy operations

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Message #26 received at 23904 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: sbaugh <at> catern.com, kieran <at> kcolford.com, dmantipov <at> yandex.ru,
 23904 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23904: Btrfs clone support in copy operations
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 19:32:26 +0200

On 07/06/2016 05:26 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> When 'cp' switches to using this by default, will it still have an
> option to disable it?
Yes. It already has that option and we wouldn't remove it due to 
backward-compatibility concerns, at least, not for many years. The 
situation for Emacs is a bit different, as Emacs doesn't have the 
backward-compatibility issues.

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