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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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Subject: Re: OT: why no file copy() libc/syscall ??
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Pavel Machek wrote:
> > It is, though.  If you run out of space copying a file, you know it when 
> > you're copying.  Applications don't usually expect to get out-of-space 
> > errors while overwriting something in the middle of a file.
> 
> Same can happen on compressed filesystem...

Or a filesystem with snapshots, e.g. using LVM.

-- Jamie