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popularity
Recognized
maintenance
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community
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Popularity

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GitHub Stars: 22.81K
Forks: 2.01K
Contributors: 280

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Security

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Release Date: Aug 26, 2023
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License

BSD-3-Clause

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Maintenance

Inactive

Commit Frequency

Open Issues: 217
Open PR: 40
Last Release: 1 year ago
Last Commit: 6 months ago

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As a healthy sign for on-going project maintenance, we found that the GitHub repository had at least 1 pull request or issue interacted with by the community.

Community

Active

Readme: Yes
Contributing.md: Yes
Code of Conduct: Yes
Contributors: 280
Funding: No

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Python Versions Compatibility: ==2.6.*, ==2.7.*, ==3.4.*, ==3.5.*, ==3.6.*, ==3.7.*

Age: 7 years
Latest Release: 1 year ago
Dependencies: N/A
Versions: 8
Maintainers: 0
Wheels: Windows

Readme

Python reflink

Python wrapper around the reflink system calls. Note: Python is implementing this natively upstream, cfr. .

Free software: MIT license
Documentation: .
Documentation for master branch:

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.

FAQs

What is reflink?

Python reflink wraps around platform specific reflink implementations. Visit Snyk Advisor to see a full health score report for reflink, including popularity, security, maintenance & community analysis.

Is reflink popular?

The python package reflink receives a total of 1,417 weekly downloads. As such, reflink popularity was classified as a recognized. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is reflink well maintained?

We found indications that reflink is an Inactive project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is reflink safe to use?

The python package reflink was scanned for known vulnerabilities and missing license, and no issues were found. Thus the package was deemed as safe to use. See the full health analysis review.

Last updated on 22 December-2024, at 13:42 (UTC).

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Python reflink

Features

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Quick start example

Help wanted

Support

Credits

History

0.2.0 (2018-03-09)

0.1.0 (2017-07-27)

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