From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Linking two files together][RFC]
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:05:12 +0200
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To: Roberto Ragusa <mail@robertoragusa.it>
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Roberto Ragusa <mail@robertoragusa.it> writes:

> I hope that ideas about btrfs are not off-topic for this mailing list.
>
> The forwarded message below was written by me on fedora-users.
> The thread is about the ability to link two files in a manner
> similar to "cat 1 2 >3 && rm 1 2" while avoiding any data
> movement on the disk.

OCFS2 can do this today with "reflinks"

-Andi

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