Re: check for reflink capability and for shared data

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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?
> - check whether two files share the same data on disk, i.e. one has been 
> created by cp --reflink of the other?

Someone has proposed to teach 'du(1)' to show this, ie. 'du --shared'[1].

It's written for ocfs2 originally, besides btrfs, ocfs2 also can share
data between two files.

[1]: https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/ocfs2-devel/2010-September/007287.html

-liubo
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