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Joey Hess 2021-05-13 12:05:24 -04:00
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[[!comment format=mdwn
username="joey"
subject="""comment 9"""
date="2021-05-13T15:51:41Z"
content="""
fork/exec can end up being fairly significant overhead when the files are
small enough. And, at least on linux systems, most people are probably not
using a filesystem supporting CoW, so most people would pay that perf
penalty. That's why the current code is optimised to avoid it,
at least in places where it's seemed worthwhile.
I'll suggest again: Just start with copyCoW, leave copyFileExternal
not doing CoW copies, I'll accept that easy patch. And then if any of
the 6 or so call sites of copyFileExternal end up being ones you want to
make support CoW on OSX, convert them to use tryCopyCoW.
(Alternatively, if there were a haskell library that provided the syscall
that does a CoW copy, it could just use it.)
"""]]