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: Charles Srstka <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 16:30:43 -0500
> On Jun 27, 2017, at 4:17 PM, Rick Mann <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Thanks for that, Charles!
>
> I wasn't sure because of the existence of the clonefile() call in
> <sys/clonefile.h>, implying that operation was different from copyfile(), but
> looking more closely at the sample code, I see that you can call copyfile()
> with COPYFILE_CLONE, which seems like it will clone if possible and copy if
> not.
>
> But there didn't seem to be equivalent calls in NSFileManager, hence my
> question.
Apple clearly wants the clone feature to get used. :-) The ability to do a copy
the old way is still there if you drop down to C, but since I can’t think of
too many reasons to want to do that, it makes sense to leave it out of the
high-level API.
Charles
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