Enum LinkStrategy 

pub enum LinkStrategy {
    Reflink,
    ReflinkAuto,
    Hardlink,
    Copy,
}

Strategy for linking files from the store to node_modules.

Variants

Reflink

Copy-on-write (APFS clonefile, btrfs reflink). Selected only by explicit packageImportMethod = clone / clone-or-copy, whose documented contract is reflink with a plain copy fallback.

ReflinkAuto

Copy-on-write chosen by auto on a same-filesystem macOS target, where APFS clonefile benchmarks faster than hardlink. (On Linux and other targets auto picks Hardlink.) Distinct from Reflink because auto owns a stronger reflink-failure fallback: the same-FS probe already proved the target shares a mount, so on a non-APFS same-FS volume (HFS+) — where clonefile is unsupported but hardlinks are not — auto degrades to a hardlink before copy, keeping the link zero-cost where explicit clone / clone-or-copy would copy. (Small macOS files copy outright before any reflink or hardlink attempt; the hardlink step is the reflink-failure fallback, not an unconditional same-FS guarantee.) Explicit clone / clone-or-copy keep their documented copy fallback and never take this hardlink step.

Hardlink

Hard link (ext4, NTFS)

Copy

Full copy (fallback)

Trait Implementations

impl Clone for LinkStrategy

fn clone(&self) -> LinkStrategy

Returns a duplicate of the value.

fn clone_from(&mut self, source: &Self)

Performs copy-assignment from source.

impl Copy for LinkStrategy

impl Debug for LinkStrategy

fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result

Formats the value using the given formatter.