Re: check for reflink capability and for shared data

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On Sat, August 24, 2013 at 18:20 (+0200), Hugo Mills wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 06:09:58PM +0200, Thomas Koch wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> how can I do the following in a shell script:
>>
>> - check whether my file system supports cp --reflink?
> 
> touch foo; if cp --reflink=always foo bar; then ...; fi; rm -f foo bar
> 
>> - check whether two files share the same data on disk, i.e. one has been 
>> created by cp --reflink of the other?
> 
>    You can't, using simple userspace tools. I think the only way would
> be to use the tree search ioctl to inspect the extents for each file,
> and see whether any of them overlap. Why do you need to know this?

It should work with fiemap to a file in question and btrfs inspect logical to
what ever extents fiemap reported as "physical".

-Jan
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