Re: Recovering a file from a snapshot without duplicating its blocks (--reflink across devs?)

[Chris Samuel <chris@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/06/12 13:01, Marc MERLIN wrote:

> First I though, I sure would be nice if I could take btrfs to reference
> the same blocks from the snapshot to my current image.
> But, --reflink failed across devices nodes, so I was forced to
> copy/duplicate the blocks (36GB).

Patches for this were posted over a year ago, but it was NAK'd by
Christoph Hellwig.  I don't know if it's got any further since then. :-(

Patch description:

 http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg09226.html

NAK:

 http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg09229.html

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 Chris Samuel  :  http://www.csamuel.org/  :  Melbourne, VIC
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