Re: cross-subvolume cp --reflink

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On Sunday 01 of April 2012 11:42:23 Jérôme Poulin wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Norbert Scheibner <scno@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Some users tested this patch successfully for week,s or months in 2 or 3
> > kernel versions since then, true?
> If this feature must be implented in VFS in another patch, why not
> just activate what works and make the future patch disable it again?

Why would (should) it be impleemented in VFS? reflink copy is completely
different from normal copy and hard link.

Subvolumes in btrfs are barriers *only* in btrfs and not visible in VFS.

IMHO it's strictly btrfs business and not supporting reflink copy between
arbitrary directories is a bug.

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