Subject: Re: bug#56391: `cp --reflink=always` creates empty file on failure

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2022 12:17:22 +0100

On 05/07/2022 16:04, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Thanks for reporting that. I installed the attached patch.

This will usually work, but there are cases where this may lose data,
as previously discussed at:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=921708
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2013-03/msg00056.html

I'm not sure cp can robustly clean up in this situation?

cheers,
Pádraig