GNU bug report logs - #23904
Btrfs clone support in copy operations

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Message #40 received at 23904 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
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: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 22:20:22 +0300

> Cc: dmantipov <at> yandex.ru, 23904 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, sbaugh <at> catern.com,
>  kieran <at> kcolford.com
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 10:17:17 -0700
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I wonder why we need that text in the manual, it doesn't seem to
> > provide any useful actionable info, just general description of an
> > issue.
> 
> The intent is to say that Emacs does not guarantee that its changes to files 
> might not survive power outages and the like. The new section briefly suggests 
> actions to take if this is of concern. Feel free to remove this stuff if you 
> think it so obvious or out-of-scope that it should not be in the manual.

Does anyone else see this text as useful?  I'm not going to remove it
if someone might find it helpful.

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