Subject: bug#62404: closed (Re: bug#62404: --reflink=auto not falling back appropriately on older kernels)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 13:22:02 +0000

Your bug report

#62404: --reflink=auto not falling back appropriately to standard copy in all cases

which was filed against the coreutils package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#62404: --reflink=auto not falling back appropriately on older kernels
From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
To: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 13:20:40 +0000
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The fix for this is now pushed at:
https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=093a8b4bf

marking this as done.

thanks,
Pádraig

Subject: --reflink=auto not falling back appropriately on older kernels
From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 13:03:06 +0000
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Details at
https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/issues/15706#issuecomment-1481144831

But in summary, the new --reflink errno checking in coreutils 9.2
is not working appropriately on android 4.9 kernels at least.

cheers,
Pádraig