diff --git a/src/cp-reflink b/src/cp-reflink
index dbfe1d0044..70a7a63bec 100755
--- a/src/cp-reflink
+++ b/src/cp-reflink
@@ -1,4 +1,2 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-# XXX: disable reflinks for now due to possible corruption:
-# https://github.com/coreos/coreos-assembler/pull/935
-exec cp -a --reflink=never "$@"
+exec cp -a --reflink=auto "$@"