Re: A file cloned with "--reflink" different from the original one?

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On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 05:26:32PM +0800, Jian Lin wrote:
> I installed BtrFS 0.19 and GNU coreutils 8.1 on my Ubuntu 9.10.
> I tried to clone some files with "--reflink" to make them "copy-on-write".
> However, I found some of the files cloned have different MD5's to the
> original ones.
> 
> Is BtrFS (or cp with reflink) buggy?
> Or it is indeed a feature that I used incorrectly?

There have been some fixes to the reflink code sine 2.6.31, I think
you're hitting a known bug.  Please try the btrfs-unstable repo, or a
2.6.32-rc kernel.

-chris
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