In a related context Pádraig Brady writes: > For robustness reasons one may want a copy to take place to protect against data corruption. Also for performance

In a related context Pádraig Brady writes: > For robustness reasons one may want a copy to take place to protect against data corruption. Also for performance reasons you may want the writes to happen at copy time rather than some latency sensitive process working on a CoW file and being delayed by the writes possibly to a different part of a mechanical disk. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/80351/why-is-cp-reflink-auto-not-the-default-behaviour https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/80351/why-is-cp-ref...