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

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: 62404 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#62404: --reflink=auto not falling back appropriately on older
 kernels
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 13:39:01 +0000

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On 23/03/2023 13:03, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> 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.

Proposed patch attached.
It may be better to key on kernel version rather than __ANDROID__
(along the lines of https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/ba5e6885d),
but that needs more investigation.

cheers,
Pádraig

[copy-clone-android.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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