From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-it0-f51.google.com ([209.85.214.51]:35092 "EHLO mail-it0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750848AbcFJRMt (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Jun 2016 13:12:49 -0400 Received: by mail-it0-f51.google.com with SMTP id z189so760280itg.0 for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2016 10:12:48 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: fsck: to repair or not to repair To: Adam Borowski , Nikolaus Rath References: <87y47g1esh.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org> <87fuslg19q.fsf@vostro.rath.org> <87twh1t4xv.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org> <20160610165046.GA18657@angband.pl> Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org From: "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" Message-ID: <271297eb-f557-4b9b-e236-81dd3f70c1be@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 13:12:42 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160610165046.GA18657@angband.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 2016-06-10 12:50, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 08:54:36AM -0700, Nikolaus Rath wrote: >> On Jun 10 2016, "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" wrote: >>> JFYI, if you've using GNU cp, you can pass '--reflink=never' to avoid >>> it making reflinks. >> >> I would have expected so, but at least in coreutils 8.23 the only valid >> options are "never" and "auto" (at least according to cp --help and the >> manpage). > > Where do you get "never" from? > > .--==== > cp: invalid argument ‘never’ for ‘--reflink’ > Valid arguments are: > - ‘auto’ > - ‘always’ > Try 'cp --help' for more information. > `---- > > And, as of coreutils 8.25, the default is no reflink, with "never" not being > recognized even as a way to avoid an alias. As far as I remember, this > applies to every past version with support for reflinks too. > Odd, I could have sworn that was an option... And I do know there was talk at least at one point of adding it and switching to reflink=auto by default.