Development Status
- 2 - Pre-Alpha
Intended Audience
- Developers
License
- OSI Approved :: MIT License
Natural Language
- English
Programming Language
- Python :: 2
- Python :: 2.6
- Python :: 2.7
- Python :: 3
- Python :: 3.4
- Python :: 3.5
- Python :: 3.6
- Python :: 3.7
Python reflink
Python wrapper around the reflink system calls. Note: Python is implementing this natively upstream, cfr. https://bugs.python.org/issue37157.
Free software: MIT license
Documentation: https://reflink.readthedocs.io.
Documentation for master branch: https://rubdos.gitlab.io/pyreflink/docs
Features
Btrfs, XFS, OCFS2 reflink support. Btrfs is tested the most.
Apple macOS APFS clonefile support. Little testing, be careful. It might eat data.
A convenience method that checks support for reflinks within a specific directory.
Installation
This library is available on pypi:
pip install reflink
Quick start example
To use Python reflink in a project:
from reflink import reflink
# Reflink copy 'large_file.img' to 'copy_of_file.img'
reflink("large_file.img", "copy_of_file.img")
Help wanted
Someone to implement a Windows/ReFS implementation
Support
Support on the GitLab repository, feel free to file an issue.
Credits
This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.
History
0.2.0 (2018-03-09)
New features:
APFS/Darwin support
Filenames outside ascii are supported (thank you, Kriskras99)
Bug fixes:
Building on newer glibc (thank you, Frankie Dintino)
Better error handling for ENOENT
Other changes:
Continuous integration for Windows (AppVeyor), integrated in the GitLab pipeline
0.1.0 (2017-07-27)
First release on PyPI.
Wheel compatibility matrix
Files in release
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