GNU bug report logs - #79139
cp --reflink truncates sparse files on ZFS

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Leah Neukirchen <leah <at> vuxu.org>

Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2025 15:02:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

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Message #55 received at 79139 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Collin Funk <collin.funk1 <at> gmail.com>
To: Sam James <sam <at> gentoo.org>
Cc: bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org, 79139 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>,
 Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>,
 Leah Neukirchen <leah <at> vuxu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#79139: cp --reflink truncates sparse files on ZFS
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2025 12:36:16 -0700

Sam James <sam <at> gentoo.org> writes:

> if that is ever useful. The changes themselves look good. Really, c_f_r
> has been an API plagued with problems :(

To be fair this is not the fault of copy_file_range itself. Not that it
makes the situation any better. :)

Collin
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