[p4] When are lazy copies created?

[G Barthelemy]

Do you by any chance use the +S[n] type modifier ? I would imagine
this to be the case in //depot/assets/... in particular. Those are
never lazy copied.

-- 
Guillaume

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Tom Cramer <TCramer at vigilgames.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to find more info on lazy copies, due to an integration I am performing that appears to not be using them.  From my understanding, lazy copies are used by default when branching to save disk space (similar to a file link in Unix land).  In this particular case, I have a branch spec that is branching 2 depot paths into 2 new locations. (//depot/files/branch1/ to //depot/files/branch2/ and //depot/assets/branch1/ //depot/files/branch2assets/)  The integrate command I'm running is "p4 integrate -o -v -Dt -t -b branch.name".  When the integrate was complete, drive free space on the depot drive dropped by tens of gigs, instead of the expected small amount due to overhead with lazy copies.
>
> The server is running 2007.3, on Windows 64 bit, and the depot drive is an NTFS partition on a iSCSI based NAS.
>
> Thanks
> -tom
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