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Everyone is talking about workarounds when this should be fixed in the file system. This is just dumb. Changing metadata shouldn't require the entire file to be
by spullara 5y ago
Everyone is talking about workarounds when this should be fixed in the file system. This is just dumb. Changing metadata shouldn't require the entire file to be copied lol.
- Hendrikto 5y ago> If you are wondering why a metadata update would make OverlayFS duplicate the entire file, it is for security reasons. You can enable “metadata only copy up”[0] feature which will only copy the metadata instead of the whole file. [0]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/overlayfs.html#metadata-only-copy-up https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/overlayfs...