No, just that sparsification will work better. 1. cp will detect holes < 128KiB 2. cp --sparse=always it will avoid speculative preallocation used on file sys

No, just that sparsification will work better. 1. cp will detect holes < 128KiB 2. cp --sparse=always it will avoid speculative preallocation used on file systems like XFS, which can have a significant impact on sparsification.