Re: How to find (out if) files sharing content?

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On 11/06/2012 06:45 AM, David Sterba wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 09:02:15PM +0800, Jeff Liu wrote:
>> I propose this because OCFS2 report shared space in this way combine with du(1).
>>
>> An old patch set to teach du(1) aware of reflinked file:
>> https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/ocfs2-devel/2010-September/007293.html
> 
> Patch looks ok, the shared size is requested by an option.
> 
>> Do you means that the costs is very expensive for userland extent status checkup per file?
> 
> The most expensive part is IMO not in userspace, it does in-memory lookups.
> 
>>> And without any possibility to turn this off,I'm afraid this will render FIEMAP unusable in practice.
>> For OCFS2, the FIEMAP_EXTENT_SHARED flag will be set upon fiemap ioctl(2) if an extent
>> is OCFS2_EXT_REFCOUNTED(i.e. reflinked or cloned), which means that FIEMAP_EXTENT_SHARED
>> is not a persistent flag, but I have no idea how Btrfs would be in this point. :(
> 
> After some research, I think this could work for btrfs without
> unwanted performance penalties.
> 
> There's the fiemap::fm_flags field that can be extended to request the
> shared extent info from fiemap, so the information is not computed
> unconditionally (that was my concern before). The rest is only
> implementation details how to speed up the file extent -> refcount info
> lookups.
Thanks for your confirmation.

-Jeff
> 
> david
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