From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
To: linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: sensille@gmx.net, larry@elder-gods.org, hch@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] btrfs: allow cross-subvolume BTRFS_IOC_CLONE
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:12:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D94618E.3030300@wpkg.org> (raw)
Arne Jansen wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:00:11AM -0400, Larry D'Anna wrote:
>>> This is a simple patch to allow reflinks to be made crossing subvolume
>>> boundaries.
>>
>> NAK. subvolumes will have to become vfsmounts sooner or later, and we
>> really must not support any operations spanning mountpoints.
>
> In what way would this interfere? the reflinked file gets its own inum
> in its own mountpoint. The two files only internally share some disk
> space.
Similarly, it would be pity if proposed deduplication couldn't cross
subvolume boundaries...
--
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-31 11:12 Tomasz Chmielewski [this message]
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2011-03-31 4:00 [PATCH 0/2] btrfs: allow cross-subvolume BTRFS_IOC_CLONE Larry D'Anna
2011-03-31 6:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-03-31 6:44 ` Arne Jansen
2011-03-31 12:02 ` Chris Mason
2011-04-01 13:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-01 13:40 ` Chris Mason
2011-04-02 1:59 ` Fajar A. Nugraha
2011-12-22 12:24 ` Chris Samuel
2012-01-06 12:04 ` Konstantinos Skarlatos
2012-01-06 17:57 ` David Sterba
2012-01-09 6:58 ` Marios Titas
2012-01-09 13:31 ` Jérôme Poulin
2012-01-19 16:52 ` Jérôme Poulin
2011-04-02 15:51 ` Ken Drummond
2011-04-02 16:56 ` Larry D'Anna
2011-04-02 20:01 ` Jérôme Poulin
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