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From: CSights <csights@fastmail.fm>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: metadata copied/data not copied?
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:35:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200903161035.19446.csights@fastmail.fm> (raw)

Hi everyone,
	I'm curious what would happen in btrfs if the following commands were issued:

# cp file1 file2
# chown newuser:newgroup file2

Where file1 was owned by olduser:oldgroup.


	If I understand copy-on-write correctly the "cp" would merely create a new 
pointer (or whatever it is called :( ) containing the files' metadata but the 
file contents would not actually be duplicated.
	Then the "chown" would change the metadata so that file2's metadata indicates 
newuser:newgroup owned the file contents.  At the same time the metadata of 
file1 would say that olduser:oldgroup owned the file contents.
	
	(If a user modified the file contents, the contents would be copied at that 
time.)

Thanks, curious newbie,
	C.

             reply	other threads:[~2009-03-16 14:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-16 14:35 CSights [this message]
2009-03-16 15:28 ` metadata copied/data not copied? jim owens
2009-03-17  0:25   ` Chris Mason
2009-03-17 15:34     ` CSights
2009-03-17 15:56       ` Chris Mason
2009-03-17 17:08         ` CSights
2009-03-17 17:24           ` Chris Mason
2009-03-16 21:14 ` Dmitri Nikulin
2009-03-16 21:18   ` Dmitri Nikulin

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