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[gentoo-user] Control /bin/cp default behavior

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Florian Philipp

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Nov 8, 2012, 3:50:01 PM11/8/12
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Hi list!

I just noticed that cp doesn't use btrfs' capabilities to do lazy copies
(a.k.a. copy on write) unless you specify --reflink=auto.

For my console needs, I could specify an alias but I don't see why
scripts shouldn't use the option as well. Is there an environment
variable to control cp like there is for less, gzip and friends?

Thanks in advance!
Florian Philipp

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