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From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: revisiting "Hard link across subvolumes"
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 21:53:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CB219D7.4080908@wpkg.org> (raw)

>> The link across subvolumes is not allowable.  In the beginning it was
>> possible, but that was source of bugs. See the thread "Hard link across
>> subvolumes"
>>
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-btrfs <at> vger.kernel.org/msg03286.html

Similar for cp --reflink across subvolumes - also won't work.

If btrfs is to support deduplication one day, it has to work across 
subvolumes - otherwise, it won't be very useful.


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org


             reply	other threads:[~2010-10-10 19:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-10 19:53 Tomasz Chmielewski [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-10-09  7:52 revisiting "Hard link across subvolumes" David Nicol
2010-10-09 13:44 ` Goffredo Baroncelli
2010-10-09 19:26   ` David Nicol

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