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Everyone is talking about workarounds when this should be fixed in the file system. This is just dumb. Changing metadata shouldn't require the entire file to be copied lol.


> If you are wondering why a metadata update would make OverlayFS duplicate the entire file, it is for security reasons. You can enable “metadata only copy up”[0] feature which will only copy the metadata instead of the whole file.

[0]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/overlayfs...




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