← Back to context Comment by rincebrain 1 day ago I assume they typoed reflinking, a way of doing CoW-based copying of file contents. 3 comments rincebrain Reply groestl 1 day ago I was under the impression it could do that, I think I build a snapshotting mechanism using this. Flimm 1 day ago rsync does not have the ability to copy a file using the filesystem's copy-on-write feature. This is unlike cp, which has the --reflink flag. Here's the bug report on GitHub which the developers closed as "won't fix for now":https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/119#issuecommen... trucks-refinish 11 hours ago yes thank you!
groestl 1 day ago I was under the impression it could do that, I think I build a snapshotting mechanism using this. Flimm 1 day ago rsync does not have the ability to copy a file using the filesystem's copy-on-write feature. This is unlike cp, which has the --reflink flag. Here's the bug report on GitHub which the developers closed as "won't fix for now":https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/119#issuecommen...
Flimm 1 day ago rsync does not have the ability to copy a file using the filesystem's copy-on-write feature. This is unlike cp, which has the --reflink flag. Here's the bug report on GitHub which the developers closed as "won't fix for now":https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/119#issuecommen...
I was under the impression it could do that, I think I build a snapshotting mechanism using this.
rsync does not have the ability to copy a file using the filesystem's copy-on-write feature. This is unlike cp, which has the --reflink flag. Here's the bug report on GitHub which the developers closed as "won't fix for now":
https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/119#issuecommen...
yes thank you!