Hello, I'm writing a simple custom deduplication script, and faced a problem with how to make it skip already deduped files. E.g., if I do cp -a --reflink fileA fileB ...after this, how to check if fileA and fileB refer to the same extents on disk? I tried comparing the outputs of "filefrag -e", but this doesn't seem to be very reliable (and e.g. instantly after such copying and until some time later, the extent maps WILL differ). The script I'm writing is in a scripting language, so ideally this should be obtainable via some command-line text based tool, without kernel API calls or the like. Perhaps ideally something that would print a list of a given file's extents with their absolute block numbers. Looked at what's available in "btrfs inspect", but there doesn't seem to be any command of that sort. -- With respect, Roman
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