Re: Is cloning the same as copying in APFS?
Re: Is cloning the same as copying in APFS?
- Subject: Re: Is cloning the same as copying in APFS?
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 22:28:31 -0700
> On Jun 26, 2017, at 7:38 PM, Rick Mann <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> But there's actually a POSIX "clone" API, and so I wonder if a copy is
> different from a clone.
The low level file copying API that I’m aware of is <copyfiles.h>, which is
Apple specific. It has options for doing copy-on-write.
I don’t know if NSFileManager’s copy method clones files. I would assume that
it does, on APFS.
—Jens
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