On Mon, 2020-12-21 at 09:53 -0800, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
Cool. A few questions inline...
On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 11:28:51AM -0500, Ben Cotton wrote:
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https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RPMCoW
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>
> == Summary ==
>
> RPM Copy on Write provides a better experience for Fedora Users as
> it
> reduces the amount of I/O and offsets CPU cost of package
> decompression. RPM Copy on Write uses reflinking capabilities in
> btrfs, which is the default filesystem in Fedora 33.
What happens if you enable this on non btrfs installs?
Does it just not work gracefully? Does it fail somehow?
It would be slower but
still works; see note #5
Of note, even on systems with Btrfs/XFS that support reflinks, falling
back to copying is still needed for e.g. files in /boot or /boot/EFI
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